Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 29
Another bright boy answered quick-ly, "To the min-er-al kingdom, sir!
Who acts: bright boy · What happens: answer · To what, where: quick ly
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 (bright boy), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ly | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
| 7 | ly | ly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kingdom | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 kingdom | punct |
| 10 | To | to | ADP | _ | 17 kingdom | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kingdom | det |
| 12 | min | min | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 er | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 min | punct |
| 14 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 al | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 er | punct |
| 16 | al | al | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kingdom | amod |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sir | punct |
| 19 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kingdom | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | another bright boy | quick ly | tree rules |
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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