Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 20
Could she have other gems besides those which sparkled in the chains about her neck?
Who acts: Cor · What happens: have, sparkle · To what, where: other gems, chains
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 (Cor), 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gems | amod |
| 5 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 7 those | case |
| 7 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 gems | nmod |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sparkled | nsubj |
| 9 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 those | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 chains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chains | det |
| 12 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sparkled | obl |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 neck | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 neck | nmod:poss |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chains | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | could | Cor | other gems | besides those | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gem=Patient | |||
| 2 | sparkle | past | the chains about Cor's neck | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chain=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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