Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 3
The cook-maid, who was just getting dinner, saw him, and called out,--
Who acts: cook maid · What happens: get, see, call out · To what, where: dinner, Dick · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cook maid), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maid | det |
| 2 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maid | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 cook | punct |
| 4 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 getting | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 getting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 getting | aux |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 getting | advmod |
| 9 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 maid | conj |
| 10 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 getting | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 maid | punct |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 called | cc |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 called | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · progressive | the cook maid | dinner | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the cook maid | Dick | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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