Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 142
Then he gave it into the care of a young girl, who promised to carry it to Napoleon.
Who acts: PICCIOLA, young girl · What happens: give, promise, carry, care · To what, where: chief, care, Napoleon
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, young girl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 care | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 care | det |
| 7 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 care | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 promised | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 promised | nsubj |
| 14 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 girl | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 carry | mark |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 promised | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carry | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Napoleon | case |
| 19 | Napoleon | Napoleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | PICCIOLA | chief | the care of a young girl | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | a young girl | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry not said to happen | to-infinitive | a young girl not said here | chief | Napoleon | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to napoleon=Destination | |||
| 4 | care | a young girl | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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