Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 30

"No, I am not poor," answered Cornelia, and as she spoke she drew her two boys to her side; "for here are my jewels.

Who acts: Cornelia · What happens: not be, answer, speak, draw, be · To what, where: two boys, Cor, jewels · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cornelia), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 poor	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 poor	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 poor	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 poor	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 poor	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 poor	advmod
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 poor	advcl
11	Cornelia	Cornelia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spoke	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spoke	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 spoke	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spoke	nsubj
16	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 poor	conj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drew	nsubj
18	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spoke	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drew	iobj
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 boys	nummod
21	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 drew	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 side	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 side	nmod:poss
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drew	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 jewels	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 here	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 here	case
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 jewels	advmod
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 jewels	cop
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 jewels	nmod:poss
31	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spoke	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	Cornelia			poor property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	Cornelia				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past	Cornelia				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	draw	past	Cornelia	two boys	Cor	to Cornelia's side	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary boy=Result
5	is a in a quote	present		my jewels			tree rules

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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