Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 121
As the summer passed by, Picciola grew more lovely every day.
Who acts: Picciola · What happens: pass by, grow · To what, where: summer
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 (Picciola), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 summer | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 summer | det |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obl |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 summer | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 summer | punct |
| 7 | Picciola | Picciola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 lovely | advmod |
| 10 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lovely | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | the summer not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | Picciola | summer | lovely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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