Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 24
They went to such places at that time very much as people now-a-days go to see a circus show or a game of base-ball.
Who acts: people · What happens: go, see · To what, where: such places, circus show
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 places | case |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 places | amod |
| 5 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 go | nsubj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 go | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 now | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 days | det |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 a | punct |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 go | nsubj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 go | xcomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 show | det |
| 22 | circus | circus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 show | amod |
| 23 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 game | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 game | det |
| 26 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 show | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 ball | case |
| 28 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ball | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 base | punct |
| 30 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 game | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | people | such places | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go | present | people | now | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | people not said here | a circus show or a game of base ball | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer show=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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