Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 34

With eager faces they waited to hear what the stranger would say next.

Who acts: children, stranger · What happens: wait, hear, say · 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, stranger), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 faces	case
2	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faces	amod
3	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 waited	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waited	nsubj
5	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 waited	xcomp
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hear	ccomp
13	next	next	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	past	children = child	with eager faces	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	children = child not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	would	the stranger	next property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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