Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 185
From that time she tried to do all that she could for Wilhelm and his friends.
Who acts: MIGNON · What happens: try, do
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 (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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tried | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 could | det:predet |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 could | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 could | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Wilhelm | case |
| 13 | Wilhelm | Wilhelm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 could | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 friends | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friends | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Wilhelm | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | MIGNON | time | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | MIGNON not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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