Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 8
"Perhaps you can do better than they," said his father scorn-ful-ly.
Who acts: you, scorn ful ly, father · What happens: do, say, ly · 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 (you, scorn ful ly, father), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 do | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 they | case |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 better | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ly | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ly | nsubj |
| 14 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ly | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 scorn | punct |
| 16 | ful | ful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ly | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ful | punct |
| 18 | ly | ly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | you | perhaps, well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man's scorn ful ly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ly | father | 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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