Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 17

"You are to dine with us to-day, here in the garden; and then our friend is going to show us that wonderful casket of jewels of which you have heard so much."

Who acts: You, friend · What happens: be, go, show, hear · To what, where: wonderful casket, us

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, friend), 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	_	5 dine	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 dine	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dine	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dine	mark
5	dine	dine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 dine	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dine	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 here	punct
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 dine	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 garden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 garden	det
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 here	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 going	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 going	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 going	advmod
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 friend	nmod:poss
20	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 going	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 going	aux
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dine	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 show	mark
24	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 going	xcomp
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 show	iobj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 casket	mark
27	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 casket	amod
28	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 show	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 jewels	case
30	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 casket	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 heard	obl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 heard	nsubj
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 heard	aux
35	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 jewels	acl:relcl
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 much	advmod
37	much	much	ADV	_	35 heard	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dine	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	You			day	with us; dine property	tree rules
2	go in a quote	present · progressive	our friend			then		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	show in a quote	to-infinitive	our friend not said here	wonderful casket of jewels	us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient casket=Topic
4	hear in a quote	present · perfect	you				of jewels	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of which=Stimulus

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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