Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 21
This answer was so dif-fer-ent from what he expected, that the king was much sur-prised.
Who acts: answer, Diogenes · What happens: be, expect · To what, where: dif fer ent, king
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Diogenes the Wise Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer, Diogenes), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 answer | det |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ent | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ent | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 ent | advmod |
| 5 | dif | dif | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ent | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dif | punct |
| 7 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ent | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ent | punct |
| 9 | ent | ent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 ent | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 expected | nsubj |
| 13 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 prised | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 prised | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prised | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 prised | cop |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 prised | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | sur | sur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prised | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 sur | punct |
| 22 | prised | prise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ent | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this answer | dif fer ent | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | expect | past | Diogenes | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past · passive | the king | prise property | 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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