Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 12

And she would take him upon her lap and sing to him, or tell him stories that filled his mind with pictures of wonderful and beautiful things.

Who acts: er, stories, tor · What happens: take, sing, tell, fill, mind · To what, where: tor, stories, mind · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (er, stories, tor), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 take	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 lap	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lap	nmod:poss
8	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sing	cc
10	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tell	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 filled	nsubj
19	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stories	acl:relcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mind	nmod:poss
21	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 filled	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 pictures	case
23	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 filled	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 things	case
25	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 things	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 beautiful	cc
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wonderful	conj
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pictures	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	would	er		tor	upon er's lap	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	sing speech: express	infinitive	er not said here		tor		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	er not said here	stories	tor		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
4	fill	past	stories	tor's mind		with pictures of wonderful things	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mind=Patient with picture=Instrument
5	mind		tor				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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