Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 19
She made fun of him for sending his cat to sea. "
Who acts: cat · What happens: make, send · To what, where: fun, cat, sea
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 (cat), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fun | nmod |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 sending | mark |
| 7 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 made | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sending | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sending | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | cat | fun of Dick | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product | ||||
| 2 | send | gerund | cat not said here | Dick's cat | sea | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cat=Theme to sea=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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