Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 6
But he had a light heart, and was as happy as a king.
Who acts: man · What happens: have, be · To what, where: light heart
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 (man), 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 | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | compound |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 happy | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 happy | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 happy | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 happy | advmod |
| 11 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 happy | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | man | a light heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | as a king; happy property | 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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