Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 27
But he was too kind-heart-ed to keep everything for himself.
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: kind heart ed, everything
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 (boy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 ed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ed | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 ed | advmod |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ed | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 heart | punct |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ed | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 heart | punct |
| 9 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 keep | mark |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ed | acl |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 keep | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 keep | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | boy | kind heart ed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | everything | for boy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
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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