Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 2

He wrote many de-light-ful books, some of which you will read when you are older.

Who acts: man, some, you · What happens: write, read, be · To what, where: many ful books

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 (man, some, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 books	amod
4	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 many	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 de	punct
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ful	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 light	punct
8	ful	ful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 books	amod
9	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wrote	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 read	punct
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 read	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 read	obl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 read	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 read	aux
16	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wrote	conj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 older	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 older	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 older	cop
20	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 read	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	past	man	many ful books		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
2	read	future	some			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of which=Topic
3	is	present	you		old 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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