Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 2
He was a noble an-i-mal, and the king paid a very high price for him.
Who acts: King, i · What happens: be, mal, pay · To what, where: high price
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 (King, i), 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 | 4 noble | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noble | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 noble | det |
| 4 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 i | det |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 an | punct |
| 7 | i | i | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mal | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 i | punct |
| 9 | mal | mal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 noble | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 paid | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 paid | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 paid | nsubj |
| 14 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noble | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 price | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 high | advmod |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 price | amod |
| 18 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 paid | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 paid | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | King | noble property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mal | infinitive | a i | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pay | past | the king | a high price | for horse | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent price=Asset for he=Theme |
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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