Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 12
Late in the day the king came to the hut of a wood-cut-ter.
Who acts: king · What happens: come · To what, where: hut
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 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 hut | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hut | det |
| 10 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ter | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ter | det |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cut | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 wood | punct |
| 15 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ter | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 cut | punct |
| 17 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hut | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king | the hut of a cut ter | day | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location |
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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