Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 19

The boy could not cook, and he was not old enough to wait on the table; but he could wash the pans and kettles, and as he was smart and quick, he could help in many other ways.

Who acts: boy · What happens: not cook, not be, wait, wash, be, help · To what, where: table, pans, many other ways

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 (boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cook	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cook	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cook	advmod
5	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 old	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 old	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 old	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 old	advmod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cook	advcl
12	enough	enough	ADV	_	11 old	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 wait	mark
14	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 old	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 table	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 table	det
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wait	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 wash	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 wash	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wash	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 wash	aux
22	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cook	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pans	det
24	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wash	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 kettles	cc
26	kettles	kettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pans	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 help	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 help	cc
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 smart	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 smart	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 smart	cop
32	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 help	advcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 quick	cc
34	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 smart	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 smart	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 help	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 help	aux
38	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wash	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 ways	case
40	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 ways	amod
41	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 ways	amod
42	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 help	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not cook	could	the boy				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	boy			enough, old property	tree rules
3	wait	to-infinitive	boy not said here		the table		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on table=Location
4	wash	could	boy	the pans and kettles			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pan=Patient
5	is	past	boy			smart property	tree rules
6	be		boy not said here				tree rules
7	help	could	boy		many other ways		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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