Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 116

He had never thought of such things before, and yet he had often seen whole gardens of flowers in bloom.

Who acts: heart · What happens: not think, see · To what, where: whole gardens, bloom

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 thought	advmod
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 things	case
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thought	obl
8	before	before	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seen	cc
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 seen	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux
14	often	often	ADV	_	15 seen	advmod
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	conj
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gardens	amod
17	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 seen	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 flowers	case
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gardens	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 bloom	case
21	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · perfect	heart					of such things; before property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past · perfect	heart	whole gardens of flowers		bloom	yet	often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=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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