Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 11

Then when they went home in the evening, the grand-moth-er would say, "What have you been doing to-day, my little sculp-tor?"

Who acts: hammer, grand moth er · What happens: go, say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hammer, grand moth er), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 evening	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 evening	det
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 er	det
11	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 er	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 grand	punct
13	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 er	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 moth	punct
15	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 doing	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 doing	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 have	obj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 doing	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 doing	aux
24	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 say	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 day	case
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 to	punct
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 doing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tor	punct
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 tor	nmod:poss
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tor	amod
31	sculp	sculp	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tor	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 sculp	punct
33	tor	tor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 doing	parataxis
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 tor	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 tor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	hammer	then; evening	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	would	the grand moth er			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	present · perfect · progressive		day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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