Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 4

"There is only one fault that I find with your story," he often said: "it is too short."

Who acts: matter, fault · What happens: be, find, say · To what, where: one fault · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (matter, fault), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fault	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 fault	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 fault	nummod
6	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 find	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
9	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fault	advcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 story	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 story	nmod:poss
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fault	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 said	advmod
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 short	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 short	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 short	cop
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 short	advmod
23	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 short	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 short	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		one fault		tree rules
2	find in a quote	present	matter		with your story	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	matter		often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	fault		short 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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