Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 17
Little Dick would have been very happy in the new home which he had thus found, if it had not been for the cross cook.
Who acts: Little Dick, home · What happens: be, find, not be · To what, where: new home
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 (Little Dick, home), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Dick | amod |
| 2 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happy | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 happy | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 happy | advmod |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 home | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 home | amod |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happy | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 found | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux |
| 15 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 found | advmod |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 home | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cook | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 cook | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cook | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 cook | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 cook | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 cook | cop |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 cook | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cook | det |
| 25 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cook | amod |
| 26 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happy | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would · perfect | Little Dick | the new home | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | past · perfect · passive | the new home | thus property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | home | for the cross cook | 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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