Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 28
"Once upon a time a certain king seized upon all the corn in his country, and stored it away in a strong gran-a-ry.
What happens: seize, store away · To what, where: certain king, country, strong ry
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: 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 | _ | 2 Once | punct |
| 2 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 stored | advmod |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Once | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 7 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | appos |
| 9 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 king | acl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 corn | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 corn | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 corn | det |
| 13 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seized | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 country | nmod:poss |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 corn | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stored | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stored | cc |
| 19 | stored | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stored | obj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 stored | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 ry | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 ry | det |
| 24 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ry | amod |
| 25 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ry | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 ry | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 ry | det |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 a | punct |
| 29 | ry | ry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stored | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 stored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize in a quote | participle | a certain king not said here | upon all corn in king's country | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | store away in a quote | past | country | a strong ry | away, once property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in ry=Location |
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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