Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 34
He put the cup to his lips, and was about to drink.
Who acts: hawk · What happens: put, be, drink · 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 (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 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cup | det |
| 4 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 lips | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lips | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 about | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 about | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 about | cop |
| 11 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 put | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 drink | mark |
| 13 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 about | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | hawk | the cup | to hawk's lips | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cup=Goal | |||
| 2 | is | past | about property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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