Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 40
The king picked up the cup, and again held it to catch the tric-kling drops.
Who acts: king · What happens: pick up, hold, catch · To what, where: cup, kling 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 (king), 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 | 10 held | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cup | det |
| 6 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 held | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 held | cc |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 held | advmod |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 held | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 catch | mark |
| 13 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 held | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 drops | det |
| 15 | tric | tric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kling | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tric | punct |
| 17 | kling | kling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drops | compound |
| 18 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 catch | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | participle | the king not said here | the cup | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the king | cup | again | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the kling drops | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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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