Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 20
And how was he going to drive the fierce Danes out of the land?
Who acts: king · What happens: go, drive · To what, where: fierce Danes, land
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 going | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 going | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 drive | mark |
| 7 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Danes | det |
| 9 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Danes | amod |
| 10 | Danes | Dane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 drive | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drive | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | drive | to-infinitive | king not said here | the fierce Danes | the land | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dane=Theme out land=Trajectory |
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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