Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 9
The captain soon told the story of the cat; and then he showed the rich present which the king and queen had sent to poor Dick in payment for her.
Who acts: captain · What happens: tell, show, send · To what, where: story, rich present, king, poor Dick, payment · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (captain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 told | advmod |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cat | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 showed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 showed | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 showed | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 showed | nsubj |
| 14 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 present | det |
| 16 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 present | amod |
| 17 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 showed | obj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 sent | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 queen | cc |
| 22 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 king | conj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sent | aux |
| 24 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 present | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Dick | case |
| 26 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Dick | amod |
| 27 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 payment | case |
| 29 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 payment | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the captain | the story of the cat | soon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 2 | show | past | captain | the rich present | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent present=Recipient | |||
| 3 | send | past · perfect · passive | the king and queen | poor Dick | payment for Dick | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination which=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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