Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 6
A fierce, rude people, called the Danes, had come from over the sea, and were fighting the Eng-lish.
Who acts: fierce rude people · What happens: call, come, fight · To what, where: fierce rude people, sea, Eng lish · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fierce rude people), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 2 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fierce | punct |
| 4 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 come | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 people | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Danes | det |
| 9 | Danes | Dane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 people | punct |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fighting | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fighting | cc |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fighting | aux |
| 20 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 come | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lish | det |
| 22 | Eng | Eng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 lish | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Eng | punct |
| 24 | lish | lish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fighting | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a fierce rude people not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | a fierce rude people | the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fight | past · progressive | a fierce rude people not said here | the Eng lish | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lish=Co-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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