Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 2
One day, all who were on the is-land, except the king and queen and one servant, went out to fish.
Who acts: One day · What happens: be, go out · To what, where: 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 (One day), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 land | det |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 land | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 land | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 land | cop |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 land | punct |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 king | punct |
| 13 | except | except | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 land | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 queen | cc |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 land | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 servant | cc |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 servant | nummod |
| 20 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 land | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 fish | case |
| 25 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One day | all land and queen and one servant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | day | to fish; out property | vn interact-36.6 «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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