Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 162

He felt sure that she must be one of the rope-dan-cers who had just come to the inn.

Who acts: man, girl, rope dan cers · What happens: feel, be, come · To what, where: one, inn

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, girl, rope dan cers), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 one	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 one	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 one	cop
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sure	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	15 cers	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cers	det
11	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cers	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 rope	punct
13	dan	dan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cers	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 cers	punct
15	cers	cer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 come	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cers	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 inn	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 inn	det
22	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	man			sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	must	girl	one		of the rope dan cers	tree rules
3	come	past	the rope dan cers		the inn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_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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