Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 10
As soon as the good gentleman heard this, he called out to his servants,--
Who acts: good gentleman, gentleman · What happens: hear, call out · To what, where: this, servants
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good gentleman, gentleman), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 called | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 heard | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gentleman | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gentleman | amod |
| 6 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | advcl |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 heard | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 called | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 servants | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 servants | nmod:poss |
| 15 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 called | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the good gentleman | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | past | gentleman | gentleman's servants | soon property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient |
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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