Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 8
When he saw the ragged little fellow at his door, he said,--
Who acts: war'ren · What happens: see, say · To what, where: ragged little fellow, door · 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 (war'ren), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fellow | det |
| 5 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellow | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellow | amod |
| 7 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 door | nmod:poss |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fellow | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | war'ren | the ragged little fellow | war'ren's door | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fellow=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | war'ren | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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