Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 35

It was not long before she had driven all the rats and mice away; and then Dick could sleep soundly every night.

Who acts: part, girl, Dick · What happens: not be, drive, sleep · To what, where: rats

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 (part, girl, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 driven	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 driven	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 driven	aux
8	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 long	advcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 rats	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rats	det
11	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 driven	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mice	cc
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rats	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 mice	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sleep	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sleep	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 sleep	advmod
18	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 sleep	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 sleep	aux
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 driven	conj
21	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	20 sleep	advmod
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sleep	obl:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	part			long property	tree rules
2	drive	past · perfect	girl	all rats and mice			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
3	sleep	could	Dick		then; night	soundly property	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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