Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 8
Dick listened to these stories, and wished that he could go to London.
Who acts: Dick · What happens: listen, wish, go · To what, where: London · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 stories | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 stories | det |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 listened | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wished | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wished | cc |
| 8 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wished | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 London | case |
| 14 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | Dick | to this stories | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | Dick not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | could | Dick | London | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to london=Initial_Location |
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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