Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 28
He gave nice presents to the cap-tain and the sailors, and to the servants in Mr. Fitz-warren's house.
Who acts: boy · What happens: give · To what, where: nice presents, cap tain
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 presents | amod |
| 4 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tain | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tain | det |
| 7 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tain | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 cap | punct |
| 9 | tain | tain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sailors | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sailors | det |
| 12 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tain | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 servants | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 servants | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 servants | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 servants | det |
| 17 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Fitz | case |
| 19 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Fitz | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Fitz | Fitz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 servants | nmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Fitz | punct |
| 22 | warren | Warren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 warren | case |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Fitz | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | boy | nice presents | the cap tain and the sailors | to the servants in Fitz Mr. | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent present=Theme to tain=Recipient |
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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