Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 113

So, though the nights were chilly, he took, day by day, some part of the firewood that was allowed him, and with this he built a little house around the plant.

Who acts: nights, heart · What happens: be, take, allow, build · To what, where: firewood, heart, little house, 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 (nights, heart), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 chilly	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chilly	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 chilly	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nights	det
5	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chilly	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chilly	cop
7	chilly	chilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chilly	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 day	case
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 part	punct
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 part	det
17	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 firewood	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 firewood	det
20	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 part	nmod
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 allowed	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 allowed	aux:pass
23	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 firewood	acl:relcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 allowed	iobj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 built	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 built	cc
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 this	case
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 built	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 built	nsubj
30	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 house	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 house	amod
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 built	obj
34	around	around	ADP	_	36 plant	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 plant	det
36	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 built	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 chilly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the nights					chilly property	tree rules
2	take	past	heart				day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	allow	past · passive		the firewood	heart				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=Theme
4	build	past	heart	a little house		the plant		with this	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent house=Theme with this=Source

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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