Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 29
He bade the king and queen good-by, and the very next day set sail for England.
Who acts: rest · What happens: bade, set · To what, where: king
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 (rest), 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 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bade | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 queen | cc |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | conj |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 by | punct |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 good | fixed |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sail | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sail | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 next | advmod |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sail | compound |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 sail | amod |
| 17 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bade | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 England | case |
| 19 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sail | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | rest | the king and queen | day set sail for England obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | set | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: 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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