Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Socrates and His House., sentence 3

One summer he built himself a house, but it was so small that his neighbors wondered how he could be content with it.

Who acts: man, house, neighbors · What happens: build, be, wonder · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Socrates and His House.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, house, neighbors), 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 summer	nummod
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 built	nsubj
4	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 built	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 small	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 small	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 small	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 small	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 small	advmod
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 built	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 wondered	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 neighbors	nmod:poss
16	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wondered	nsubj
17	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 small	advcl
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 content	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 content	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 content	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 content	cop
22	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wondered	ccomp
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 content	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	man	man	summer		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary house=Product
2	is	past	house			small property	tree rules
3	wonder speech: ask	past	man's neighbors				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	could	man			with house; content property	tree rules

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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