Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 1
At one time the Danes drove King Alfred from his kingdom, and he had to lie hidden for a long time on a little is-land in a river.
Who acts: Danes, King · What happens: drive, have, lie, hide, be · To what, where: King, kingdom, land
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Danes, King), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 time | nummod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drove | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Danes | det |
| 5 | Danes | Dane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 drove | nsubj |
| 6 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 drove | obj |
| 8 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 kingdom | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drove | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drove | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 lie | mark |
| 17 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 lie | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hidden | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 land | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 little | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 land | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 land | cop |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 land | punct |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 time | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 river | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 river | det |
| 31 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 land | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | the Danes | King | King's kingdom | time | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent king=Theme from kingdom=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | have | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lie | to-infinitive | King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hide | participle | King not said here | time | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | present | land | in a river; a little obl:unmarked | 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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