Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 6
The king and queen were seated not far away; and soon a number of dishes were brought in for dinner.
What happens: seat, bring in · To what, where: king, number
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 queen | cc |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seated | aux:pass |
| 6 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 far | advmod |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 seated | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 brought | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 number | det |
| 14 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dishes | case |
| 16 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 number | nmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux:pass |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 seated | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 brought | compound:prt |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 dinner | case |
| 21 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | the king and queen | away property | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | bring in | past · passive | a number of dishes | for dinner; soon property | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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