Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 10
It is indeed un-pleas-ant; and the king would give half his treas-ure if he could get rid of them."
Who acts: answer, king · What happens: be, give, get · To what, where: treas ure
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer, king), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 un-pleas-ant | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 un-pleas-ant | cop |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 un-pleas-ant | advmod |
| 4 | un-pleas-ant | un-pleas-ant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 un-pleas-ant | conj |
| 11 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 15 ure | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ure | nmod:poss |
| 13 | treas | treas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ure | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 treas | punct |
| 15 | ure | ure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | aux |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 give | advcl |
| 20 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rid | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 un-pleas-ant | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 un-pleas-ant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | answer | indeed, un-pleas-ant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | would | the king | king's treas ure | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen | could | king | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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