Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 20
Waves, stop your rolling, and do not dare to touch my feet!"
Who acts: Waves, your · What happens: stop, not dare, not touch, roll · To what, where: rolling, feet
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 (Waves, your), 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 | Waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 rolling | nmod:poss |
| 5 | rolling | rolling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dare | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dare | cc |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dare | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 dare | advmod |
| 10 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stop | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 touch | mark |
| 12 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dare | xcomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 touch | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | infinitive | Waves | your rolling | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rolling=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not dare | infinitive · do-support | Waves not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not touch | to-infinitive | Waves not said here | my feet | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | roll | your | nom rolling «event intransitive»: poss=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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