Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 14
But none of them wanted to lose their heads, and so only a few tried for the prize.
Who acts: none · What happens: want, lose, try · To what, where: heads
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none), 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 | _ | 5 wanted | cc |
| 2 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 none | nmod |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lose | mark |
| 7 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heads | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lose | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tried | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 few | advmod |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 few | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 few | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tried | amod |
| 16 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wanted | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 prize | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prize | det |
| 19 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | none | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lose not said to happen | to-infinitive | none not said here | stories's heads | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | try | participle | none not said here | for the prize | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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