Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 1
A good many years ago there lived in Italy a little boy whose name was An-to'ni-o Ca-no'va.
Who acts: name, to'ni · What happens: live, be, name · To what, where: Italy, to'ni
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, to'ni), 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 | 4 years | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 years | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Italy | case |
| 9 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boy | amod |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | advcl |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 to'ni | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 to'ni | cop |
| 16 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 to'ni | det |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 An | punct |
| 18 | to'ni | to'ni | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boy | acl:relcl |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 no'va | punct |
| 20 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 23 no'va | case |
| 21 | Ca | Ca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 no'va | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Ca | punct |
| 23 | no'va | no'va | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 to'ni | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Italy; there | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in italy=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a to'ni and Ca no'va's name | a to'ni and Ca no'va | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | a to'ni and Ca no'va | 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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