Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 24
His officers stood about him, alarmed, and won-der-ing whether he was not mad.
Who acts: officers, king · What happens: stand, alarm, win, not be · To what, where: der ing
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 (officers, king), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 officers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 alarmed | punct |
| 7 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stood | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 won | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 won | cc |
| 10 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 won | punct |
| 12 | der | der | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ing | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 der | punct |
| 14 | ing | ing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 won | obj |
| 15 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 19 mad | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 mad | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mad | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 mad | advmod |
| 19 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 won | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | king's officers | about king | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about he=Location | ||||
| 2 | alarm | participle | king's officers not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | win | past | der ing | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ing=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not is | past | king | mad property | tree rules |
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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