Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 22
His mind was busy making plans for to-mor-row.
Who acts: mind, king · What happens: be, make, mind · To what, where: plans
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 (mind, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mind | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | cop |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 busy | advcl |
| 6 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 making | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 row | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 row | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | mor | mor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 row | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 mor | punct |
| 12 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 making | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king's mind | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | king's mind not said here | plans | for mor row | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent plan=Product for row=Asset | |||
| 3 | mind | king | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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