Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 197

She set the light down upon the table, and in a little while she asked him if she might dance.

Who acts: MIGNON · What happens: set down, ask, dance · To what, where: light, table, Wilhelm

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	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 set	advmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 table	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asked	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 little	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 little	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 and	obl
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 asked	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 asked	nsubj
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 asked	iobj
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 dance	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dance	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 dance	aux
21	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 asked	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	set down	past	MIGNON	the light		the table	down property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme upon table=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	past	MIGNON		Wilhelm			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	dance a condition, not said to happen	might	MIGNON					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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