Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 13

The children did not know who the strange gentleman was; but they liked his kind face and gentle manners.

Who acts: children, strange gentleman · What happens: not know, be, like · To what, where: kind face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Kingdoms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, strange gentleman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	5 know	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gentleman	det
8	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gentleman	amod
9	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 who	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 who	cop
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 liked	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 liked	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 liked	nsubj
14	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 face	nmod:poss
16	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 face	amod
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 liked	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 manners	cc
19	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 manners	amod
20	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 face	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the children		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the strange gentleman		tree rules
3	like	past	children = child	gentleman's kind face and gentle manners	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot face=Theme

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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