Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 15

Sometimes the Count would have a grand dinner, and his rich friends from other towns would come to visit him.

Who acts: Count, rich friends · What happens: have, come, visit · To what, where: grand dinner, Count

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 (Count, rich friends), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 have	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Count	det
3	Count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dinner	det
7	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dinner	amod
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friends	nmod:poss
12	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 friends	amod
13	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	nsubj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 towns	case
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 towns	amod
16	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 friends	nmod
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 visit	mark
20	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 visit	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	would	the Count	a grand dinner	sometimes property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
2	come	would	Count's rich friends from other towns			tree rules
3	visit	to-infinitive	Count's rich friends from other towns not said here	Count		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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