Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 15

Then he held up an orange so that all the children could see.

Who acts: king, children · What happens: hold up, see · To what, where: orange

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 (king, children), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 held	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 held	compound:prt
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 orange	det
6	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	obj
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 see	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 see	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 children	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 children	det
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 see	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 held	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	past	king	a orange			then		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot orange=Theme
2	see	could	all children						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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