Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 26
The king would not have missed getting the cat now for the world.
Who acts: king · What happens: not miss, get · To what, where: cat
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 missed | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 missed | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 missed | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 missed | aux |
| 6 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 missed | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 getting | obj |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 getting | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 getting | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not miss | would · perfect | the king | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | get | gerund | the king not said here | the cat | now | for the world | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cat=Theme for world=Source |
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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