Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 149
The em-per-or's kind wife had heard the story of Charney's care for the plant.
Who acts: kind wife, Charney · What happens: hear, care · To what, where: story
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 (kind wife, Charney), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 em-per-or | det |
| 2 | em-per-or | em-per-or | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 em-per-or | case |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wife | amod |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | aux |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 care | case |
| 11 | Charney | Charney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 care | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Charney | case |
| 13 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 story | nmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 plant | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plant | det |
| 16 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 care | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | the em-per-or's kind wife | the story of Charney's care for the plant | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | care | Charney | for the plant | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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