Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 2
Every day, and all day long, he sat on soft cush-ions and lis-tened to stories.
Who acts: king · What happens: sit, ten · To what, where: soft cush ions
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 (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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 day | cc |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 day | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ions | case |
| 12 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ions | amod |
| 13 | cush | cush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ions | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 cush | punct |
| 15 | ions | ion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sat | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tened | cc |
| 17 | lis | lis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tened | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 lis | punct |
| 19 | tened | ten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sat | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 stories | case |
| 21 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tened | obl:agent |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | king | soft cush ions | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ion=Location | |||
| 2 | ten | participle | king not said here | 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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