Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 73
"I have learned a sad lesson to-day; and that is, never to do any-thing in anger."
Who acts: hawk, that · What happens: learn, not be · To what, where: sad lesson, anger
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, that), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 learned | aux |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lesson | det |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lesson | amod |
| 7 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learned | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learned | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 do | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 do | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 do | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 learned | conj |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 thing | det |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 any | punct |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 anger | case |
| 23 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | present · perfect | hawk | a sad lesson | day | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic | |||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | that | anger | do property | 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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