Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 26

His bed was in a garret at the top of the house, far away from the rooms where the other people slept.

Who acts: bed, other people · What happens: be, sleep · To what, where: garret

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 (bed, other people), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bed	nmod:poss
2	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 garret	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 garret	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 garret	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 garret	det
6	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 top	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 garret	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 top	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 away	punct
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 away	advmod
15	away	away	ADV	_	6 garret	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 rooms	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rooms	det
18	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 away	obl
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 slept	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 slept	nsubj
23	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 rooms	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 garret	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dick's bed			a garret		at the top of the house; away property	tree rules
2	sleep	past	the other people						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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