Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 24
In the morning the king arose early, and crossed over to the mainland.
Who acts: king · What happens: arise, cross over · To what, where: mainland
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | nsubj |
| 6 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 arose | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crossed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 crossed | cc |
| 10 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 arose | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 crossed | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mainland | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mainland | det |
| 14 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crossed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the king | morning | early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | cross over | participle | the king not said here | the mainland | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mainland=Initial_Location |
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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