Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 31
He held it so as to catch the slowly falling drops.
Who acts: hawk · What happens: hold, catch, fall · To what, where: cup, falling drops
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | obj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 catch | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 catch | mark |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 catch | mark |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 held | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 drops | det |
| 9 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 falling | advmod |
| 10 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 drops | amod |
| 11 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 catch | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | hawk | cup | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | hawk not said here | the falling drops | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | gerund | slowly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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