Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 43
But his father-in-law, the king, did not care to listen to any more stories.
Who acts: father · What happens: not care, listen
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 (father), 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 | _ | 14 care | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 care | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 law | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 law | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 in | punct |
| 7 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 father | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 father | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 care | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 care | advmod |
| 14 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 listen | mark |
| 16 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 care | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 stories | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 stories | det |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 stories | amod |
| 20 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 listen | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | past · do-support | king's father in law | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | king's father in law not said here | to any more stories | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme |
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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