Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 82
A long time ago a lady, whose name was Mrs. Hemans, wrote a poem about this brave boy Ca-sa-bi-an-ca.
Who acts: lady, long time · What happens: be, write, name · To what, where: Mrs. Hemans, poem
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 (lady, long time), 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 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wrote | nsubj |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Hemans | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 name | punct |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lady | conj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Hemans | cop |
| 11 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Hemans | compound |
| 12 | Hemans | Heman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 time | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 14 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 poem | det |
| 16 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wrote | obj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 boy | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 boy | det |
| 19 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 boy | amod |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 poem | nmod |
| 21 | Ca | Ca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 boy | appos |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Ca | punct |
| 23 | sa | sa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bi | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 sa | punct |
| 25 | bi | bi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ca | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 ca | punct |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 ca | det |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 an | punct |
| 29 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 boy | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a lady and a lady and a lady's name's name | Mrs. Hemans | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | past | a long time | a poem | about this brave boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent poem=Recipient about boy=Topic | |||
| 3 | name | a lady and a lady and name's name | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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