Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 145
What a long, dreary waiting it was for Charney and Picciola!
Who acts: journey · What happens: wait, be
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 (journey), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 6 waiting | obj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 waiting | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 waiting | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreary | punct |
| 5 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 long | conj |
| 6 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 Charney | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Charney | cop |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Charney | case |
| 10 | Charney | Charney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 waiting | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Picciola | cc |
| 12 | Picciola | Picciola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Charney | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Charney | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | journey | for Charney and Picciola | tree rules |
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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