Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 12
The tyrant was sur-prised that anybody should make such an offer.
Who acts: anybody · What happens: prise, make · To what, where: tyrant, offer
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Damon and Pythias.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anybody), 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 tyrant | det |
| 2 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prised | aux:pass |
| 4 | sur | sur | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 prised | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sur | punct |
| 6 | prised | prise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 8 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 prised | advcl |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 offer | det:predet |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 offer | det |
| 13 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 prised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prise | past · passive | the tyrant | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | should | anybody | such offer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Product |
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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