Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 8
He was so full of joy that he lifted up his eyes, and thanked Heaven for sending him such good fortune.
Who acts: Fitzwarren · What happens: be, lift up, thank, send · To what, where: eyes, Heaven, such good fortune, Fitzwarren
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 (Fitzwarren), 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 | 4 full | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 full | advmod |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 lifted | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lifted | nsubj |
| 9 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 lifted | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lifted | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thanked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thanked | cc |
| 15 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lifted | conj |
| 16 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thanked | obj |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 sending | mark |
| 18 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 thanked | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sending | obj |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fortune | amod |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fortune | amod |
| 22 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sending | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Fitzwarren | of joy; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lift up | past | Fitzwarren | Fitzwarren's eyes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | Fitzwarren not said here | Heaven | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme | ||||
| 4 | send | gerund | Fitzwarren not said here | such good fortune | Fitzwarren | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination fortune=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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