Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 141
He wrote his little story on his hand-ker-chief.
Who acts: PICCIOLA · What happens: write · To what, where: little story, hand ker chief
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 story | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrote | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 chief | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 chief | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chief | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 hand | punct |
| 10 | ker | ker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chief | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 chief | punct |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrote | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | PICCIOLA | PICCIOLA's little story | PICCIOLA's hand ker chief | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme on chief=Destination |
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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