Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 136

Already the flowers had with-ered; the leaves would soon fall from the stem.

Who acts: flowers, leaves · What happens: have, er, fall · To what, where: stem

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 (flowers, leaves), 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	Already	already	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flowers	det
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 ered	mark
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 with	punct
7	ered	er	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 fall	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leaves	det
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fall	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fall	aux
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 fall	advmod
13	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 stem	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stem	det
16	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fall	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the flowers			tree rules
2	er	participle	the flowers not said here			tree rules
3	fall	would	the leaves	the stem	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from stem=Initial_Location

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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