Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 13

And the next day, when he went back to the stone-yard, he would try to make some of those pictures in stone or clay.

Who acts: tor · What happens: go back, try, make · To what, where: some

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 (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	_	8 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 went	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 yard	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 yard	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 yard	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 stone	punct
14	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 try	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 try	aux
18	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 try	xcomp
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 make	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 pictures	case
23	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 pictures	det
24	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 some	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 stone	case
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pictures	nmod
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 clay	cc
28	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stone	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	tor		day	to the stone yard result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to yard=Result
2	try	would	tor				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	tor not said here	some			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset some=Product

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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