Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 34
Dick hid his cat in the garret, and every day he carried a part of his dinner to her.
Who acts: Dick · What happens: hide, carry · To what, where: cat, garret, part, girl
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), 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 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 garret | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garret | det |
| 7 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carried | cc |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | nsubj |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 dinner | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 part | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Dick | Dick's cat | the garret | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Patient in garret=Location | |||
| 2 | carry | past | Dick | a part of Dick's dinner | girl | day | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent part=Theme to she=Destination |
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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