Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 63
It was a huge, dead snake of the most poi-son-ous kind.
Who acts: pool · What happens: be · To what, where: huge dead snake
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 (pool), 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 | 7 snake | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 snake | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 snake | det |
| 4 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 snake | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 huge | punct |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 snake | amod |
| 7 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 kind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 kind | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 poi | advmod |
| 11 | poi | poi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ous | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 poi | punct |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poi | conj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 poi | punct |
| 15 | ous | ous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kind | compound |
| 16 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snake | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 snake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | pool | a huge dead snake | of the ous kind | tree rules |
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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