Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 19
"You will find them inside of the box," he answered.
Who acts: You, husband · What happens: find, answer · To what, where: 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 (You, husband), 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 find | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 box | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 box | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 box | det |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 box | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | future | You | tions = tion | the box | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | husband | the box not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent box=Eventuality |
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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