Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 74
A great flash of light fills the air; clouds of smoke shoot quickly upward to the sky; and--
Who acts: great flash, clouds, light · What happens: fill, shoot, flash, cloud · To what, where: air, sky, smoke
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 (great flash, clouds, light), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flash | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flash | amod |
| 3 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fills | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 light | case |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flash | nmod |
| 6 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fills | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 shoot | punct |
| 10 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shoot | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 smoke | case |
| 12 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clouds | nmod |
| 13 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fills | parataxis |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 shoot | advmod |
| 15 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 13 shoot | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 sky | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sky | det |
| 18 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shoot | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 fills | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ; | cc |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 and | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | present | a great flash of light | the air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shoot | present | clouds of smoke | the sky | quickly, upward property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent to sky=Destination | |||
| 3 | flash | light | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | cloud | smoke | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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