Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 150
She saw the handkerchief on which he had written of its pretty ways.
Who acts: wife, PICCIOLA · What happens: see, write · To what, where: handkerchief
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 (wife, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 handkerchief | det |
| 4 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 written | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 written | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 written | aux |
| 9 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 handkerchief | acl:relcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ways | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ways | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ways | amod |
| 13 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 written | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | wife | the handkerchief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer handkerchief=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | write | past · perfect | PICCIOLA | the handkerchief | of handkerchief's pretty ways | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on which=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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