Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 27
At last, how-ever, the casket was closed and carried care-ful-ly away.
What happens: close, carry · To what, where: casket, last, care
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 closed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ever | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 ever | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ever | punct |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 last | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 casket | det |
| 9 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 closed | aux:pass |
| 11 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carried | cc |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 closed | conj |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 16 | ful | ful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 carried | conj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ful | punct |
| 18 | ly | ly | ADV | _ | 19 away | advmod |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 ful | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past · passive | the casket | last | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | participle | care | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
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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