Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 14

He was in such a hurry to see the wonderful sights, that he forgot to thank the driver of the wagon.

Who acts: lad · What happens: be, see, forget, not thank · To what, where: hurry, wonderful sights, driver

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hurry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hurry	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 hurry	case
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 hurry	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hurry	det
6	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hurry	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sights	det
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sights	amod
11	sights	sight	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forgot	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 forgot	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 forgot	nsubj
15	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 see	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 thank	mark
17	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 forgot	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 driver	det
19	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thank	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 wagon	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wagon	det
22	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 driver	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hurry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	lad			such hurry	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		the wonderful sights			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
3	forget	past	lad				tree rules
4	not thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	lad not said here		the driver of the wagon		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=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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