Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 193

Often for a whole day she would not say one word, and yet in waiting upon Wilhelm she never tired.

Who acts: MIGNON · What happens: not say, wait · To what, where: one word, Wilhelm · Speech: someone speaks here

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	Often	often	ADV	_	9 say	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 day	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 say	advmod
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 word	nummod
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 waiting	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 waiting	cc
14	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 waiting	advmod
15	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 waiting	mark
16	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 say	conj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 Wilhelm	case
18	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 waiting	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tired	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 tired	advmod
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 waiting	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	would	MIGNON	one word			day	often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	wait	gerund	MIGNON not said here			Wilhelm	yet		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wilhelm=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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