Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 179
"Pay me what her clothes cost," cried the ropedancer at last, "and you may take her."
Who acts: you, clothes, ropedancer · What happens: pay, cost, cry, take · To what, where: ropedancer, last, 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 (you, clothes, ropedancer), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pay | punct |
| 2 | Pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Pay | iobj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 cost | obj |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 cost | nsubj |
| 7 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Pay | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Pay | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ropedancer | det |
| 12 | ropedancer | ropedancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pay | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pay | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Pay | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pay | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the ropedancer = ropedancer | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset | ||||
| 2 | cost in a quote | present | MIGNON's clothes | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the ropedancer | last | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | may | you | MIGNON | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
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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