Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 14
Goldsmith gave her a little paper box that was very heavy.
Who acts: Goldsmith, little paper box · What happens: give, be · To what, where: little paper box, woman
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Doctor Goldsmith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goldsmith, little paper box), 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 | Goldsmith | Goldsmith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 box | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 box | amod |
| 6 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 box | compound |
| 7 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 heavy | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heavy | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 heavy | advmod |
| 11 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 box | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Goldsmith | a little paper box | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient box=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | a little paper box | heavy 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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