Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 25
Then Canute took off his crown, and threw it down upon the sand.
Who acts: Canute · What happens: take off, throw down, crown · To what, where: crown, sand
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 (Canute), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Canute | Canute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 crown | nmod:poss |
| 6 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 threw | cc |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 threw | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 threw | compound:prt |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 sand | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sand | det |
| 14 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | Canute | Canute's crown | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw down | past | Canute not said here | crown | the sand | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon sand=Destination | |||
| 3 | crown | Canute | nom crown «communication transitive»: 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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