Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 161

As she ran by, he caught her in his arms and asked her to whom she belonged.

Who acts: girl, man · What happens: run by, catch, ask, belong · To what, where: girl, arms

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 (girl, man), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 ran	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 caught	advcl
4	by	by	ADP	_	3 ran	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 caught	nsubj
7	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 caught	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 arms	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arms	nmod:poss
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 caught	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 caught	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 whom	case
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 asked	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 belonged	nsubj
18	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 whom	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	run by	past	girl				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past	man	girl		man's arms	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	man not said here		girl		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	belong	past	girl				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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