Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 3

They were looking at their mother and her friend, who were walking among the flowers and trees.

Who acts: boys, friend · What happens: look, walk · To what, where: flowers

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 (boys, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looking	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looking	aux
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 mother	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 friend	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friend	nmod:poss
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walking	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 walking	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walking	aux
13	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 friend	acl
14	among	among	ADP	_	16 flowers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 flowers	det
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 walking	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 trees	cc
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flowers	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	boys = boy					at boys's mother and Rome's friend	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mother=Theme
2	walk	past · progressive	Rome's friend			the flowers and trees			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among flower=Trajectory

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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