Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 1
By and by Dick grew so faint and tired that he could go no farther.
Who acts: Dick · What happens: grow, go
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick), 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 grew | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grew | cc |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 grew | mark |
| 4 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 faint | advmod |
| 7 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tired | cc |
| 9 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 faint | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 faint | advcl |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 farther | advmod |
| 15 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 go | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Dick | faint property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | could | Dick | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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