Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 190

She would spring along by the railing, and before you knew it, would be sitting quietly above on the landing.

Who acts: MIGNON, you · What happens: spring, know, sit · To what, where: railing, landing

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, you), 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 spring	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spring	aux
3	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 spring	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 railing	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 railing	det
7	railing	railing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spring	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knew	cc
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 knew	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spring	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knew	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sitting	punct
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 sitting	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 sitting	aux
17	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 knew	conj
18	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	19 above	advmod
19	above	above	ADV	_	17 sitting	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 landing	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 landing	det
22	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring	would	MIGNON			by the railing; along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by railing=Trajectory
2	know	past	you	railing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	sit	would · progressive	you not said here		the landing	above property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on landing=Location

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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