Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 19

He sat down in a dark corner, and cried himself to sleep.

Who acts: Dick · What happens: sit down, cry, sleep · To what, where: dark corner, Dick

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), 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	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 corner	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 corner	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 corner	amod
7	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 cried	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sleep	mark
13	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit down	past	Dick		a dark corner	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
2	cry speech: express	past	Dick not said here	Dick		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	sleep	to-infinitive	Dick not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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