Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 22
He picked her up, and offered her to the queen; but at first the queen was afraid to touch her.
Who acts: king, queen · What happens: pick up, offer, be, touch · To what, where: creature, queen
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 (king, queen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 picked | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 offered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 offered | cc |
| 7 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 offered | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 queen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offered | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 afraid | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 afraid | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 first | case |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 afraid | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 queen | det |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 afraid | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 afraid | cop |
| 19 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 picked | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 touch | mark |
| 21 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 afraid | xcomp |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 touch | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | king | creature | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | king not said here | creature | to the queen goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent she=Theme to queen=Goal | |||
| 3 | is | past | the queen | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | touch | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | queen | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme |
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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