Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 26
He longed to be out of the palace, and away, he cared not where.
Who acts: smile · What happens: long, be, not care · To what, where: palace
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 longed | nsubj |
| 2 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 palace | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 palace | cop |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 longed | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 away | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 away | cc |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 longed | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cared | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cared | nsubj |
| 14 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 longed | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 cared | advmod |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 cared | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past | smile | away property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | smile not said here | the palace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not care | past | smile | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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