Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 182

"Where have you been?" asked Wilhelm in his kindest tones; but the child did not speak.

Who acts: child, Wilhelm · What happens: be, not speak, intonate · To what, where: Wilhelm, kindest tones · 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 (child, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 asked	advmod
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Where	nsubj
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 asked	cop
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 been	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 been	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 asked	iobj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 tones	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tones	nmod:poss
12	kindest	kind	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 tones	amod
13	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 asked	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 speak	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 speak	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 child	det
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 speak	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 speak	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 speak	advmod
20	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	participle		Wilhelm	Wilhelm's kindest tones	ask property	tree rules
2	not speak speech: other	past · do-support	the child				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	intonate		Wilhelm				nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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