Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 11
King Alfred fled alone, in great haste, through the woods and swamps.
Who acts: King · What happens: flee
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fled | nsubj |
| 2 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 fled | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 haste | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 haste | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 haste | amod |
| 8 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fled | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 woods | punct |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 woods | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woods | det |
| 12 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fled | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swamps | cc |
| 14 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 woods | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | King | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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