Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 31

Dick did go back, and he was lucky enough to get into the kitchen, and set about his work, before the cook came down-stairs to get break-fast.

Who acts: Dick, cook · What happens: go back, be, get, set, come down, work · To what, where: kitchen, stairs, break

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 (Dick, cook), 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	3 go	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lucky	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lucky	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lucky	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lucky	cop
9	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	parataxis
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 lucky	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lucky	advcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 kitchen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kitchen	det
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 set	cc
18	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 work	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 work	nmod:poss
21	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 set	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 came	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cook	det
25	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	parataxis
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 down	punct
29	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 came	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 get	mark
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 came	advcl
32	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obj
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 break	punct
34	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 get	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back	past · do-support	Dick				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	Dick			enough, lucky property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	Dick not said here		the kitchen		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Destination
4	set	past	Dick not said here			about Dick's work	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about work=Destination
5	come down	past	the cook	stairs		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stair=Theme
6	get	to-infinitive	the cook not said here	break		fast property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer break=Stimulus
7	work		Dick				nom work «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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