Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 19
Most of them were soon stretched dead upon the floor, while the rest scam-pered away to their holes, and did not dare to come out again.
What happens: stretch, per, not dare, not come out · To what, where: Most
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: 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Most | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stretched | aux:pass |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 stretched | advmod |
| 6 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stretched | xcomp |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 floor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 floor | det |
| 10 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretched | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pered | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 pered | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rest | det |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scam | compound |
| 15 | scam | scam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pered | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 scam | punct |
| 17 | pered | per | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stretched | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 pered | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 holes | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 holes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 away | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dare | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dare | cc |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 dare | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 dare | advmod |
| 26 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stretched | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 come | mark |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 dare | xcomp |
| 29 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 come | advmod |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 come | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past · passive | Most of rats | upon the floor; dead, soon property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | per | participle | away property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not dare | past · do-support | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | not come out | to-infinitive | again | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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