Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 22

He walked about from one street to another, and at last grew so hungry that he began to ask those whom he met to give him a penny to buy something to eat.

Who acts: Dick · What happens: walk, grow, begin, ask, meet, give · To what, where: one street, last, those, penny, Dick, something

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 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 street	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 street	nummod
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 another	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 street	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grew	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grew	obl
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 hungry	advmod
15	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grew	xcomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 began	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hungry	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 ask	mark
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 ask	obj
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 met	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 met	nsubj
24	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 those	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 give	mark
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 met	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 give	iobj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 penny	det
29	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 buy	mark
31	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 give	advcl
32	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 buy	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 eat	mark
34	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 something	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Dick			one street to another	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from street=Trajectory
2	grow	past	Dick not said here			last	hungry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
3	begin	past	Dick					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Dick not said here	those				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient
5	meet	past	Dick					tree rules
6	give	to-infinitive	Dick not said here	a penny	Dick			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient penny=Theme
7	buy	to-infinitive	Dick not said here	something				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
8	eat	to-infinitive	Dick not said here	something not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «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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