Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 30

After that, Whittington's face was washed, and his hair curled, and he was dressed in a nice suit of clothes; and then he was as handsome a young man as ever walked the streets of London.

Who acts: hair, boy · What happens: wash, curl, dress, be, walk · To what, where: face, boy, nice suit, streets

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 (hair, 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 face	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 that	punct
4	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 face	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Whittington	case
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 washed	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 washed	aux:pass
8	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 curled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 curled	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hair	nmod:poss
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 curled	nsubj
13	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 washed	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dressed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dressed	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dressed	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dressed	aux:pass
18	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 washed	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 suit	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 suit	det
21	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 suit	amod
22	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dressed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 clothes	case
24	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	22 suit	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 handsome	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 handsome	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 handsome	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 handsome	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 handsome	cop
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 handsome	case
31	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 washed	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 man	det
33	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 man	amod
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 handsome	nsubj
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 walked	mark
36	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 walked	advmod
37	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 handsome	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 streets	det
39	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 walked	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 London	case
41	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 streets	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past · passive		Whittington's face				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	curl	participle	boy's hair					vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
3	dress	past · passive		boy	a nice suit of clothes			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	past	boy			then	handsome property	tree rules
5	walk	past	boy not said here	the streets of London		ever		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme street=Trajectory

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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