Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 3
It was a very lonely place, and no one could get to it except by a boat.
Who acts: land, one · What happens: be, get · To what, where: lonely place, 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 (land, one), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 place | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 lonely | advmod |
| 5 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 place | amod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 place | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | obl |
| 15 | except | except | ADP | _ | 18 boat | case |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 boat | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 boat | det |
| 18 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | land | a lonely place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | could | no one | land | except a boat | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result |
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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