Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 109

But once it was almost broken by the huge feet of the jailer's dog.

Who acts: huge feet · What happens: break · To what, where: plant

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 (huge feet), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 broken	cc
2	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 broken	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 broken	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	aux:pass
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 broken	advmod
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 feet	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feet	det
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feet	amod
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 broken	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 dog	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 jailer	det
13	jailer	jailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dog	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 jailer	case
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feet	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive	the huge feet of the jailer's dog	plant				almost property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=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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