Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 23
When the day came, thousands of people crowded to see the sport.
Who acts: day · What happens: come, crowd, see · To what, where: thousands, people, sport
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Androclus and the Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thousands | punct |
| 6 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thousands | nmod |
| 9 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 people | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 crowded | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sport | det |
| 13 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the day | thousands of people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crowd | participle | people not said here | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the sport | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sport=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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