Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 18
"What are the di-rec-tions for taking it?" asked the woman.
Who acts: rec tions, woman · What happens: be, take, ask · To what, where: rec tions, box · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rec tions, woman), 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 | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 tions | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tions | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tions | det |
| 5 | di | di | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rec | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 di | punct |
| 7 | rec | rec | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tions | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 rec | punct |
| 9 | tions | tion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 taking | mark |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 tions | acl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 taking | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 taking | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 taking | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the rec tions | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | gerund | the rec tions not said here | box | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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