Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 2
In a vine-covered summer-house in a beautiful garden, two boys were standing.
Who acts: two boys · What happens: cover, stand · To what, where: covered summer house
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 (two boys), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 3 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 vine | punct |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 house | amod |
| 6 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 house | punct |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 standing | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 garden | amod |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 house | punct |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 boys | nummod |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 standing | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 standing | aux |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | two boys | a covered summer house in a beautiful garden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
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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