Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 24

She could only say, "Putty, putty, putty!" for she had not learned to talk English.

Who acts: queen · What happens: say, not learn, talk · To what, where: Putty, English · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Putty	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Putty	punct
7	Putty	putty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 putty	punct
9	putty	putty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Putty	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 putty	punct
11	putty	putty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Putty	appos
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 putty	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 putty	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 learned	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 learned	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 learned	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 learned	advmod
18	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 say	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 talk	mark
20	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 learned	xcomp
21	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 talk	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	queen	Putty and putty	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent putty=Topic
2	not learn	past · perfect	queen		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	talk	to-infinitive	queen not said here	English	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent english=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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