Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 7

One day a poor woman asked Doctor Goldsmith to go and see her husband, who was sick and could not eat.

Who acts: poor woman, husband · What happens: ask, go, see, be, not eat · To what, where: Doctor, husband

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 (poor woman, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Doctor	Doctor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 asked	iobj
8	Goldsmith	Goldsmith	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Doctor	flat
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asked	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 see	cc
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 husband	nmod:poss
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sick	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sick	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sick	cop
18	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 husband	acl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 eat	cc
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 eat	advmod
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sick	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	a poor woman		Doctor	day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	a poor woman not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	a poor woman not said here	Doctor's husband				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus
4	is	past	Doctor's husband				sick property	tree rules
5	not eat	could	Doctor's husband not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «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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