Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 131
But this was a thing which the jailer dared not do.
Who acts: this, jailer · What happens: be, do · To what, where: thing
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 (this, jailer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 thing | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 do | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jailer | det |
| 8 | jailer | jailer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | nsubj |
| 9 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 dared | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | a thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the jailer | a thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
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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