Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 29
One day a gentleman gave him a penny for cleaning his shoes, and he made up his mind that he would buy a cat with it.
Who acts: gentleman, penny, Dick · What happens: give, clean, make up, buy, mind · To what, where: penny, Dick, shoes, mind, cat
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 (gentleman, penny, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gentleman | det |
| 4 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 penny | det |
| 8 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 cleaning | mark |
| 10 | cleaning | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 penny | acl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cleaning | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 made | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 buy | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 buy | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 buy | aux |
| 23 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 made | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cat | det |
| 25 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 buy | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 buy | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a gentleman | a penny | Dick | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient penny=Theme | ||
| 2 | clean | gerund | a penny not said here | Dick's shoes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make up | past | Dick | Dick's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | buy | would | Dick | a cat | with cat | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | |||
| 5 | mind | Dick | nom mind «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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