Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 117

One day, with soot and water he made some ink; he spread out his hand-ker-chief for paper; he used a sharp-ened stick for a pen--and all for what?

Who acts: heart · What happens: make, spread out, use, en · To what, where: ink, hand ker chief, sharp ened stick

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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 soot	case
5	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 water	cc
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soot	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 ink	det
11	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 spread	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spread	nsubj
14	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 spread	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 chief	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chief	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 hand	punct
19	ker	ker	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chief	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 chief	punct
21	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spread	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 paper	case
23	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chief	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 used	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 used	nsubj
26	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 stick	det
28	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stick	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 sharp	punct
30	ened	en	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 stick	amod
31	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 used	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 pen	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 pen	det
34	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stick	nmod
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 all	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 all	cc
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 used	conj
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 what	case
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 all	nmod
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	heart	some ink	day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ink=Product
2	spread out	past	heart	heart's hand ker chief		for paper	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chief=Theme
3	use	past	heart	a sharp ened stick		for a pen	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent stick=Theme for pen=Eventuality
4	en	participle					tree rules

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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