Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 22
Then he opened the box of jewels, and showed Dick his treasures.
Who acts: captain · What happens: open, show, treasure · To what, where: box, treasures, Dick
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 (captain), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 jewels | case |
| 7 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 box | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 showed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 showed | cc |
| 10 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 11 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | obj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 13 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 showed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | captain | the box of jewels | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | past | captain not said here | captain's treasures | Dick | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dick=Recipient treasure=Topic | |||
| 3 | treasure | captain | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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