Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 14

The wom-an was baking some cakes upon the hearth, and she looked with pity upon the poor, ragged fellow who seemed so hungry.

Who acts: wom, poor ragged fellow · What happens: bake, look, seem · To what, where: cakes

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 (wom, poor ragged fellow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wom	det
2	wom	wom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 baking	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 baking	det
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 baking	aux
6	baking	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 wom	acl
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 cakes	det
8	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 baking	obj
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 hearth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hearth	det
11	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cakes	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looked	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 pity	case
17	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 fellow	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fellow	det
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fellow	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 poor	punct
22	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fellow	amod
23	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 seemed	nsubj
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fellow	acl:relcl
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 hungry	advmod
27	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seemed	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bake	past · progressive	the wom not said here	some cakes	upon the hearth	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product
2	look	past	the wom		with pity; upon the poor ragged fellow	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon fellow=Theme
3	seem	past	the poor ragged fellow		hungry property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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