Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 17
"So much the better," said the Spartans; "we shall fight in the shade."
Who acts: better, we · What happens: say, fight · To what, where: Spartans, shade · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Brave Three Hundred.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (better, we), 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 better | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 better | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 better | det |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Spartans | det |
| 10 | Spartans | Spartan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 fight | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fight | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fight | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fight | aux |
| 15 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 shade | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shade | det |
| 18 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fight | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fight | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the better | the Spartans | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight in a quote | shall | we | the shade | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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