Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 23
"Boys!" cried Ralph the Rover; "put out the boat, and row me to the Inchcape Rock.
Who acts: Boys · What happens: cry, put out, row · To what, where: Ralph Rover, boat, Boys, Inchcape Rock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Inchcape Rock.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boys), 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 Boys | punct |
| 2 | Boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boys | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boys | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Rover | compound |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rover | det |
| 8 | Rover | Rover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 put | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boat | det |
| 14 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 row | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 row | cc |
| 17 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 put | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 row | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Rock | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Rock | det |
| 21 | Inchcape | Inchcape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Rock | compound |
| 22 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 row | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Boys | the Ralph Rover | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rover=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put out in a quote | infinitive | Boys not said here | the boat | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent boat=Goal | ||||
| 3 | row in a quote | infinitive | Boys not said here | Boys = boy | the Inchcape Rock | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme to rock=Trajectory |
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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