Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 57
But when he looked for his cup, he found that it had fallen between two rocks, where he could not reach it.
Who acts: Genghis, cup · What happens: look, find, fall, not reach · To what, where: two rocks, cup · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Genghis, cup), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 looked | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 cup | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cup | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 fallen | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fallen | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fallen | aux |
| 14 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 found | ccomp |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 rocks | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 rocks | nummod |
| 17 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fallen | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reach | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 reach | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reach | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 reach | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 reach | advmod |
| 23 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reach | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Genghis | for Genghis's cup | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cup=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Genghis | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect | cup | two rocks | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between rock=Location | ||||
| 4 | not reach | could | Genghis | cup | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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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