Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 21
His wife and children were very happy, for they thought that now they would not be parted again.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be, think, not part · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Regulus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 children | cc |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wife | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 happy | advmod |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 thought | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 parted | mark |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 parted | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 parted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 parted | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 parted | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 parted | aux:pass |
| 18 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 parted | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Regulus's wife and children | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | wife | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not part | would · passive | wife | now; again | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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