Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 181
But he could not find her, and it was not until the ropedancers had left the town that she came to him.
Who acts: Wilhelm, MIGNON · What happens: not find, not leave, come · To what, where: MIGNON, master, town, 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 find | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 find | advmod |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 left | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 left | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 left | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 left | advmod |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 left | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ropedancers | det |
| 14 | ropedancers | ropedancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 left | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 left | aux |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 find | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 town | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | could | Wilhelm | MIGNON | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not leave | past · perfect · passive | master | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme town=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | come | past | MIGNON | the town not said here | Wilhelm | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=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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