Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 4

So, as he walked among the trees, he often stopped to listen to the singing birds, or to look at the wild flowers that grew on every side.

Who acts: king, wild flowers · What happens: walk, stop, listen, sing, look, grow · To what, where: trees, side

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, wild flowers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 walked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 walked	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walked	nsubj
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	among	among	ADP	_	8 trees	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stopped	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stopped	nsubj
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 stopped	advmod
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 listen	mark
14	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stopped	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 birds	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 birds	det
17	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 birds	amod
18	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 listen	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 look	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 look	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 look	mark
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 listen	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 flowers	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 flowers	det
25	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flowers	compound
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 look	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 grew	nsubj
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 flowers	acl:relcl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 side	case
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 side	det
31	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	king	the trees		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Trajectory
2	stop	past	king		often property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	listen	to-infinitive	king not said here		to the singing birds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bird=Theme
4	sing speech: express	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look	to-infinitive	king not said here		at the wild flowers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme
6	grow	past	the wild flowers	every side		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location

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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