Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 37
The bright boys were puz-zled now.
What happens: zl · To what, where: bright boys
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boys | amod |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 zled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 zled | aux:pass |
| 5 | puz | puz | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 zled | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 puz | punct |
| 7 | zled | zl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 zled | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 zled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zl | past · passive | the bright boys | now | 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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