Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 17
Then he chanced to raise his eyes toward the ceiling.
Who acts: Damocles · What happens: chance, raise · To what, where: eyes, ceiling
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sword of Damocles.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Damocles), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 chanced | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chanced | nsubj |
| 3 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 raise | mark |
| 5 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chanced | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 raise | obj |
| 8 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 10 ceiling | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ceiling | det |
| 10 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raise | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | past | Damocles | then | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | raise | to-infinitive | Damocles not said here | Damocles's eyes | the ceiling | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme toward ceiling=Destination |
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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