Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 44
Tears were in his eyes as he kissed her, and said, "So be it, my child!
Who acts: Tears, Frederick · What happens: be, kiss, say · To what, where: eyes, Prussia, heaven · 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 (Tears, Frederick), 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 | Tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eyes | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eyes | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 kissed | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kissed | nsubj |
| 8 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kissed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kissed | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 it | punct |
| 15 | So | so | ADV | _ | 17 it | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 it | cop |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 child | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 child | nmod:poss |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 it | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 eyes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tears | Frederick's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | Frederick | Prussia | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Frederick not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | infinitive | heaven | 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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