Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 41
And so the strange story-teller married the king's daughter.
Who acts: strange story teller · What happens: marry · To what, where: daughter
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 (strange story teller), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 married | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 married | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 teller | det |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 teller | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 teller | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
| 7 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 married | nsubj |
| 8 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 married | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | the strange story teller | the king's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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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