Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 10
In the after-noon the men who had gone out to fish came back.
Who acts: men · What happens: go out, come back
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 (men), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 noon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 noon | det |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 noon | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 after | punct |
| 5 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 gone | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gone | aux |
| 10 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 men | acl:relcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 gone | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 fish | case |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gone | obl |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past · perfect | the men | to fish | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come back | past | the men | noon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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