Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 159
One day as he was going up-stairs he met a little girl coming down.
Who acts: man, little girl · What happens: go up, meet, come down · To what, where: stairs, little girl
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 (man, little girl), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 going | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 going | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 stairs | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 up | punct |
| 9 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 going | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 met | nsubj |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obj |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 girl | acl |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 coming | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past · progressive | man | stairs | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | man | a little girl | day | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | come down | gerund | a little girl not said here | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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