Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 189

She never walked up and down the stairs, but jumped.

Who acts: MIGNON · What happens: not walk up, jump

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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 walked	advmod
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stairs	cc
6	down	down	ADP	_	8 stairs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stairs	det
8	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walked	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jumped	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 jumped	cc
11	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk up	past	MIGNON						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	jump	past	MIGNON not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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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