Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 4
"Did you ever see so handsome a lady as our mother's friend?" asked the younger boy, holding his tall brother's hand. "
Who acts: you, younger boy · What happens: see, ask, hold · To what, where: handsome lady, hand · 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 (you, younger boy), 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 | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 handsome | advmod |
| 7 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lady | amod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 friend | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 mother | case |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 19 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 boy | amod |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 holding | punct |
| 22 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 asked | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 brother | amod |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 brother | case |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 holding | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past · do-support | you | a handsome lady | ever | as our mother's friend | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus as friend=Attribute | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the younger boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | the younger boy not said here | friend's tall brother's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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