Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 2
On a fine morning in June he went out alone to walk in the green woods.
Who acts: king · What happens: go out, walk · To what, where: green woods
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), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 June | case |
| 6 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 walk | mark |
| 12 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 woods | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woods | det |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woods | amod |
| 16 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 walk | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | king | morning | alone, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | king not said here | the green woods | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory |
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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