Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 151

"Surely," she said, "it can do us no good to keep such a man in prison."

Who acts: wife, handkerchief · What happens: say, do, keep · To what, where: good, us, man, prison · Speech: someone speaks here

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, handkerchief), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Surely	surely	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Surely	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 do	iobj
13	no	no	ADV	_	14 good	advmod
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 do	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 keep	mark
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 good	advcl
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 man	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keep	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 prison	case
21	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keep	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wife				surely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	can	handkerchief	good	us			tree rules
3	keep in a quote	to-infinitive	handkerchief not said here	such man		prison		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme in prison=Location

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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