Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 6
"It is a pity to ruin so fine a horse as that," said Al-ex-an'der, the king's young son. "
Who acts: bade · What happens: be, ruin, say · To what, where: pity, fine · 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 (bade), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pity | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pity | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pity | det |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ruin | mark |
| 7 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pity | acl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 fine | advmod |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ruin | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fine | nsubj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 fine | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 an'der | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Al | punct |
| 19 | ex | ex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 an'der | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ex | punct |
| 21 | an'der | an'der | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 son | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 king | case |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 son | amod |
| 27 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 an'der | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | bade | a pity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ruin in a quote | to-infinitive | fine | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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