Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 16
Dick, with tears in his eyes, carried poor puss down to the ship, and gave her to the captain.
Who acts: eyes, Dick · What happens: carry down, give · To what, where: poor puss, ship, cat
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, 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 | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tears | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 tears | case |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dick | appos |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tears | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 eyes | acl |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 puss | amod |
| 11 | puss | puss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ship | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 captain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 captain | det |
| 22 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry down | participle | Dick's eyes not said here | poor puss | the ship | down property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent puss=Theme to ship=Destination | ||
| 2 | give | past | Dick | cat | to the captain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to captain=Recipient |
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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