Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 25

After that, Dick had an eas-i-er time of it; but his troubles were not over yet, by any means.

Who acts: Dick, troubles, any · What happens: have, not be, mean, trouble · To what, where: eas

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, troubles, any), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 had	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 that	punct
4	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 eas	det
7	eas	ea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 i	punct
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 eas	nmod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct
11	er	er	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 i	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 time	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 yet	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 troubles	nmod:poss
18	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 yet	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 yet	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 yet	advmod
21	over	over	ADV	_	22 yet	advmod
22	yet	yet	ADV	_	26 means	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 means	mark
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 means	nsubj
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Dick	a eas i	after that		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ea=Patient
2	not is	past	Dick's troubles			over, yet property	tree rules
3	mean	present	any				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	trouble		Dick				nom trouble «cognition 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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