Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 6

None of them had ever been to the great city, but they seemed to know all about the wonderful things which were to be seen there.

Who acts: None, people · What happens: have, be, seem, know, see · To what, where: wonderful things

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 (None, people), 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	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 had	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 city	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 city	cop
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 city	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 city	amod
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 seemed	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 know	mark
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 seemed	xcomp
17	all	all	ADV	_	21 things	advmod
18	about	about	ADP	_	21 things	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 things	det
20	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 know	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 seen	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux
24	to	to	PART	_	26 seen	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 seen	aux:pass
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 things	acl:relcl
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 seen	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	None					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle				ever	to the great city	tree rules
3	seem	past	people					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	know	to-infinitive	people not said here	the wonderful things				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
5	see	past · passive	people not said here	the wonderful things	there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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