Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 192
To Wilhelm it was with her arms crossed upon her breast.
Who acts: railing · What happens: be, cross · To what, where: Wilhelm, arms
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 (railing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:1866): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 Wilhelm | case |
| 2 | Wilhelm | Wilhelm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 arms | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 arms | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arms | cop |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 arms | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arms | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 arms | acl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 breast | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 breast | nmod:poss |
| 11 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crossed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | railing | Wilhelm | with MIGNON's arms | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cross | participle | MIGNON's arms not said here | upon MIGNON's breast | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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