Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 5
Now and then he stooped to pluck a violet, or a primrose, or a yellow but-ter-cup.
Who acts: king · What happens: stoop, pluck · To what, where: primrose, violet
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stooped | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 then | cc |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stooped | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stooped | nsubj |
| 5 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pluck | mark |
| 7 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stooped | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 violet | det |
| 9 | violet | violet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pluck | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 primrose | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 primrose | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 primrose | det |
| 13 | primrose | primrose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stooped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 yellow | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 yellow | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 yellow | det |
| 17 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stooped | parataxis |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 cup | cc |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 but | punct |
| 20 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cup | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ter | punct |
| 22 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 yellow | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | past | king | a primrose | now; then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pluck | to-infinitive | king not said here | a violet | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent violet=Patient |
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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