Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 45
"Now is there anything else that you would like?" asked the host.
Who acts: anything, you, host · What happens: be, like, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Barmecide Feast.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anything, you, host), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 is | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 anything | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 like | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 like | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | aux |
| 10 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 anything | acl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 host | det |
| 15 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | anything | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | like in a quote | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the host | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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