Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 40

But they were a little afraid, and all kept still.

Who acts: kingdom · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: all

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 (kingdom), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 afraid	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 afraid	obl:unmarked
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 kept	nsubj:pass
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 afraid	conj
11	still	still	ADV	_	10 kept	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	kingdom					a little obl:unmarked; afraid property	tree rules
2	keep	participle · passive		all			still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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