Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 170
Wilhelm went on; but he could not help wondering about the child, and thinking of her dark eyes and strange ways.
Who acts: Wilhelm · What happens: go on, not help, wonder, think
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 (Wilhelm), 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 | Wilhelm | Wilhelm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 help | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 help | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 help | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 help | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 help | advmod |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 10 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 help | xcomp |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 child | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wondering | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thinking | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thinking | cc |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thinking | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ways | cc |
| 22 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ways | amod |
| 23 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 eyes | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Wilhelm | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not help | could | Wilhelm | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask not said to happen | gerund | Wilhelm not said here | about the child | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about child=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | Wilhelm not said here | of MIGNON's dark eyes and strange ways | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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