Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 5

Little Alice guessed why he did not come, and so she said to her papa,--

Who acts: Little Alice, Alice, Mr. · What happens: guess, not come, say · To what, where: papa · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Little Alice, Alice, Mr.), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Alice	amod
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 guessed	nsubj
3	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 come	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 come	advmod
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 guessed	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 guessed	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 papa	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 papa	nmod:poss
16	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	guess	past	Little Alice		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not come	past · do-support	Alice		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Mr.	Mr.'s papa	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to papa=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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