Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 19
"Sea," cried Canute, "I command you to come no farther!
Who acts: Sea · What happens: cry, command, come · To what, where: Canute, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sea), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sea | punct |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sea | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Canute | Canute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 command | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 command | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 command | nsubj |
| 10 | command | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 command | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 command | advcl |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 farther | advmod |
| 15 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 come | advmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Sea | Canute | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canute=Topic | ||||
| 2 | command in a quote | present | Sea | you | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | Sea not said here | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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