Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 19
How was he going to get his army to-geth-er again?
Who acts: king · What happens: go, get · To what, where: army
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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 going | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 army | nmod:poss |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 er | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | geth | geth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 er | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 geth | punct |
| 13 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | king | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | king not said here | king's army | again | to geth er | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus |
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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