Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 20
Rise up early in the morning and blow your horn three times, so loudly that the Danes may hear it.
Who acts: you, Danes · What happens: rise up, blow, hear · To what, where: horn
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 (you, Danes), 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 | Rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Rise | compound:prt |
| 3 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Rise | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rise | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blow | cc |
| 8 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Rise | conj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horn | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blow | obj |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 times | nummod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blow | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 loudly | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 loudly | advmod |
| 15 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 8 blow | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 hear | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Danes | det |
| 18 | Danes | Dane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 hear | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hear | aux |
| 20 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 blow | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hear | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | imperative | you not said here | morning | early property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | blow | infinitive | you not said here | your horn | time | loudly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||
| 3 | hear | may | the Danes | horn | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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