Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 11
When the driver came out and was ready to start, the lad ran up and asked him if he might walk by the side of the wagon.
Who acts: driver, lad · What happens: come out, be, start, run up, ask, walk · To what, where: lad
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 (driver, lad), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 driver | det |
| 3 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ran | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ready | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ready | cop |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 start | mark |
| 10 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ready | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lad | det |
| 13 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 ran | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ran | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 walk | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 walk | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 walk | aux |
| 22 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 side | det |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walk | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wagon | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wagon | det |
| 28 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 side | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the driver | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the driver not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | start | to-infinitive | the driver not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | run up | past | the lad | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | the lad not said here | lad | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | walk a condition, not said to happen | might | driver | by the side of the wagon | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=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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