Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 18

All the men who were there shouted when they saw that the boy had proved himself to be the master of the horse.

Who acts: servants, boy · What happens: shout, see, prove, be · To what, where: men, boy, master · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (servants, boy), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 men	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shouted	nsubj:pass
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 shouted	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shouted	aux:pass
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 shouted	advmod
7	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 saw	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shouted	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 proved	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proved	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 proved	aux
15	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 saw	ccomp
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 proved	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	20 master	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 master	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 master	det
20	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proved	advcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 horse	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horse	det
23	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 master	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · passive		all men	there		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	see	past	servants = servant				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	prove	past · perfect	the boy	boy			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	the master		of the horse	tree rules

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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