Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 10

Dick saw the wagon standing by the inn, and he thought that it must be going to the fine city of London.

Who acts: Dick, wagon · What happens: see, stand, think, go · To what, where: wagon, fine city · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the City.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, wagon), 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	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wagon	det
4	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 wagon	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 inn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 inn	det
8	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 thought	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 city	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 city	det
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 city	amod
21	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 London	case
23	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 city	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Dick	the wagon			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wagon=Stimulus
2	stand	gerund	the wagon not said here			by the inn	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by inn=Location
3	think speech: other	past	Dick				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	go	must · progressive	wagon		the fine city of London		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_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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