Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 4
"Is it pos-si-ble to cross the Alps?" said Na-po-le-on.
Who acts: name, Na · What happens: be, cross, say · To what, where: pos si ble, Alps · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Na), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ble | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ble | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ble | nsubj |
| 4 | pos | pos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ble | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 pos | punct |
| 6 | si | si | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ble | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ble | punct |
| 8 | ble | ble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cross | mark |
| 10 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ble | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Alps | det |
| 12 | Alps | Alp | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 cross | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 ble | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ble | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Na | Na | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Na | punct |
| 18 | po | po | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 on | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 po | punct |
| 20 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 on | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 on | punct |
| 22 | on | on | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | name | pos si ble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cross in a quote | to-infinitive | Na not said here | the Alps | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alp=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Na | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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