Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 18

They looked at one another, and sat very still for a little while.

Who acts: children · What happens: look, sit

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), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 looked	obl
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 one	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 still	advmod
10	still	still	ADV	_	8 sat	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 while	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 while	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 while	amod
14	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	children = child					at one	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme
2	sit	past	children = child not said here				still; while		vn assuming_position-50 «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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