Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 15
"Oh, I am so dirty!" he said, "and my shoes are full of hob-nails."
Who acts: Mr., shoes · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mr., shoes), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dirty | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 dirty | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 dirty | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dirty | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 dirty | advmod |
| 7 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 dirty | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dirty | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dirty | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dirty | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 full | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 full | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 full | cop |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dirty | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 nails | case |
| 20 | hob | hob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nails | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 hob | punct |
| 22 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 full | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dirty | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dirty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Mr. | dirty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Mr. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | my shoes | of hob nails; full property | tree rules |
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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