Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 173

He saw that the master of the dancers was beating little Mignon with a stick.

Who acts: Wilhelm, master · What happens: see, beat · To what, where: little Mignon · 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 (Wilhelm, master), 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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 beating	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 master	det
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beating	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 dancers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dancers	det
8	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 master	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 beating	aux
10	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saw	ccomp
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Mignon	amod
12	Mignon	Mignon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 beating	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 stick	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stick	det
15	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beating	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Wilhelm						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	beat	past · progressive	the master of the dancers	little Mignon				with a stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mignon=Patient with stick=Instrument

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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