Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 12

While everybody was laughing, Alexander ran up to Bu-ceph-a-lus, and turned his head toward the sun. He had noticed that the horse was afraid of his own shadow.

Who acts: everybody, Alexander, Bu, horse · What happens: laugh, run up, turn, notice, be, shadow · To what, where: head, sun.

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Alexander and Bucephalus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, Alexander, Bu, horse), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 laughing	mark
2	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 laughing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughing	aux
4	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ran	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laughing	punct
6	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ran	nsubj
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 ran	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	16 lus	case
10	Bu	Bu	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 lus	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Bu	punct
12	ceph	ceph	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lus	nsubj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 lus	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lus	det
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 a	punct
16	lus	lus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 turned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 turned	cc
19	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ran	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turned	obj
22	toward	toward	ADP	_	24 sun.	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sun.	det
24	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turned	obl
25	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 noticed	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 noticed	aux
27	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 sun.	acl:relcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 afraid	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horse	det
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 afraid	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 afraid	cop
32	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 noticed	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 shadow	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 shadow	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 shadow	amod
36	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 afraid	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	everybody				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run up	past	Alexander			to a lus result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to lus=Result
3	turn	past	Alexander not said here	ceph's head	the sun.		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme toward sun.=Trajectory
4	notice	past · perfect	Bu	the sun. not said here			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sun.=Stimulus
5	is	past	the horse			of horse's own shadow; afraid property	tree rules
6	shadow		horse				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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