Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 17
The king had often ridden through the woods, and he knew all the paths.
Who acts: king, hawk · What happens: ride, know · To what, where: woods, paths
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The King and His Hawk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, hawk), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ridden | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ridden | aux |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 ridden | advmod |
| 5 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 woods | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woods | det |
| 8 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ridden | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knew | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ridden | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 paths | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 paths | det |
| 15 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 knew | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ridden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · perfect | the king | the woods | often property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | know | past | hawk | all paths | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer path=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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