Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 183
"You are to live with me now, and you must be a good child," he said.
Who acts: You, child · What happens: be, say · To what, where: good child · 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, child), 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 | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 live | mark |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 live | obl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 live | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 child | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 child | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 child | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 child | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 child | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 child | amod |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | now | with child; live property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | must | you | a good child | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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