Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 114
The plant had a thousand pretty ways which he noticed.
Who acts: plant, heart · What happens: have, notice · To what, where: thousand pretty ways
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 (plant, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 plant | det |
| 2 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thousand | det |
| 5 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ways | nummod |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ways | amod |
| 7 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 noticed | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 noticed | nsubj |
| 10 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ways | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the plant | thousand pretty ways | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | heart | thousand pretty ways | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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