Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 118
He felt that he must write down the doings of his little pet.
Who acts: heart · What happens: feel, write down · To what, where: doings
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 | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 write | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 write | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 write | aux |
| 6 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | ccomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 write | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 doings | det |
| 9 | doings | doing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 write | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pet | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pet | amod |
| 13 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doings | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | heart | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | write down | must | heart | the doings of heart's little pet | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doing=Theme |
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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