Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 21
When the simple out-door meal was over, a servant brought the casket from the house.
Who acts: simple door meal, servant · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: casket, 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 (simple door meal, servant), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 over | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meal | det |
| 3 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 meal | amod |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 out | punct |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meal | compound |
| 7 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 over | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 over | cop |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 brought | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 over | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 servant | det |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 casket | det |
| 15 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the simple door meal | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | a servant | the casket | the house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent casket=Theme from house=Initial_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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