Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 17
Everybody laughed at his queer venture; but little Alice felt sorry for him, and gave him money to buy another cat.
Who acts: Everybody, little Alice, Dick · What happens: laugh, feel, give, buy, venture · To what, where: queer venture, money, Dick, 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 (Everybody, little Alice, 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 venture | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 venture | nmod:poss |
| 5 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 venture | amod |
| 6 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laughed | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 felt | cc |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Alice | amod |
| 10 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 12 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 felt | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 buy | mark |
| 21 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 gave | advcl |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 cat | det |
| 23 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buy | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Everybody | Dick's queer venture | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | little Alice | for Dick; sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Everybody not said here | money | Dick | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=Theme | |||
| 4 | buy | to-infinitive | Everybody not said here | another cat | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | ||||
| 5 | venture | Dick | nom venture «act intransitive»: poss=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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