Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 32
It took a long time to fill the cup; and the king was so thirsty that he could hardly wait.
Who acts: It, king, hawk · What happens: take, fill, be, wait · To what, where: cup
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 (It, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fill | mark |
| 7 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cup | det |
| 9 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fill | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 thirsty | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thirsty | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thirsty | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thirsty | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 thirsty | advmod |
| 16 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 took | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 wait | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wait | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 wait | aux |
| 20 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 21 wait | advmod |
| 21 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thirsty | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fill | to-infinitive | the cup | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the king | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wait | could | hawk | hardly property | vn exist-47.1 «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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