Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 180
As soon as all was quiet, Wilhelm went to look for Mignon; for she now belonged to him.
Who acts: all, Wilhelm, MIGNON · What happens: be, go, look, belong · To what, where: Wilhelm
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 (all, Wilhelm, MIGNON), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 quiet | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 quiet | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 quiet | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 quiet | cop |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | Wilhelm | Wilhelm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 quiet | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Mignon | case |
| 13 | Mignon | Mignon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 belonged | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 belonged | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 belonged | nsubj |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 belonged | advmod |
| 18 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 belonged | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | quiet, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Wilhelm | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Wilhelm not said here | for Mignon | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mignon=Theme | ||||
| 4 | belong | past | MIGNON | Wilhelm | now | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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