Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 25
Dick then offered some of his jewels to his mistress and little Alice.
Who acts: Dick · What happens: offer · To what, where: some, mistress
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), 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 offered | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 offered | advmod |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 offered | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 jewels | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 7 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 some | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 mistress | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Alice | cc |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Alice | amod |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mistress | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | Dick | some | boy's mistress and little Alice | then | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent some=Theme to mistress=Goal |
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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