Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 1
A hundred years or more after the time of Alfred the Great there was a king of England named Ca-nute.
Who acts: hundred years · What happens: be, name · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Canute on the Seashore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred years), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 years | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 was | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 more | cc |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 years | conj |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 years | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Alfred | case |
| 10 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Great | det |
| 12 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Alfred | flat |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 England | case |
| 18 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 king | nmod |
| 19 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 king | acl |
| 20 | Ca | Ca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 named | xcomp |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 nute | punct |
| 22 | nute | nute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Ca | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a hundred years after the time of Alfred | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a king of England not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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