Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 23
And then she would box his ears, or beat him with the broom-stick.
Who acts: maid, box · What happens: box, beat · To what, where: fellow
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 (maid, box), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beat | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 box | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 box | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 box | aux |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beat | nsubj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 box | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beat | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 beat | cc |
| 10 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beat | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 stick | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stick | det |
| 14 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stick | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 broom | punct |
| 16 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beat | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | box | would | maid | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beat | infinitive | box and fellow's ears | fellow | with the broom stick | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with stick=Instrument |
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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