Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 22
The smile faded from the lips of Damocles.
Who acts: smile · What happens: fade · To what, where: lips
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 (smile), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 smile | det |
| 2 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 faded | nsubj |
| 3 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 lips | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lips | det |
| 6 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 faded | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Damocles | case |
| 8 | Damocles | Damocles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lips | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 faded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade | past | the smile | the lips of Damocles | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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