Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 17
Mr. Fitzwarren ordered a chair to be set for him, and then the lad began to think that they were making fun of him.
Who acts: Fitzwarren, lad, shoes · What happens: order, be, begin, think, make · To what, where: chair, fun
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 (Fitzwarren, lad, 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fitzwarren | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Fitzwarren | Fitzwarren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chair | det |
| 5 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 set | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 set | cop |
| 8 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ordered | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 began | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lad | det |
| 15 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 think | mark |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 making | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 making | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 making | aux |
| 22 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 think | advcl |
| 23 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 making | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fun | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Fitzwarren Mr. | a chair | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Fitzwarren Mr. not said here | for Mr.; set property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the lad | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the lad not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | make | past · progressive | shoes = shoe | fun of Mr. | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |
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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