Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 30

The very next morning he met a girl who was car-ry-ing a cat in her arms.

Who acts: Dick, girl · What happens: meet, e · To what, where: girl, cat, arms

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, girl), 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 morning	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 next	advmod
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	obl:unmarked
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 met	nsubj
6	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 ing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ing	aux
11	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ing	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 car	punct
13	ry	ry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ing	nsubj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 ing	punct
15	ing	e	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 girl	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cat	det
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ing	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 arms	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arms	nmod:poss
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ing	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	Dick	a girl			morning		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent
2	e	past · progressive	a girl	a cat		ry's arms			tree rules

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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