Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 14
Dick was scouring the pots when word was brought to him that he should go to the office.
Who acts: Dick, Mr. · What happens: scour, bring, go · To what, where: pots, word, Mr., office
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 (Dick, Mr.), 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 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 scouring | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scouring | aux |
| 3 | scouring | scour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pots | det |
| 5 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scouring | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 brought | advmod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux:pass |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 scouring | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 brought | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 office | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 office | det |
| 18 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scouring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scour | past · progressive | Dick | the pots | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pot=Source | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | word | Mr. | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go | should | Mr. | the office | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to office=Initial_Location |
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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