Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 177
The man tried to get loose; but Wilhelm held him fast.
Who acts: man, Wilhelm · What happens: try, get, hold · To what, where: man
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 held | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 held | cc |
| 9 | Wilhelm | Wilhelm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 held | nsubj |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 held | obj |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 held | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the man | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the man not said here | loose property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | Wilhelm | man | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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