Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 20
All went well until it was time to spread the table for dinner.
Who acts: table · What happens: go, be, spread · To what, where: table
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 (table), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | until | until | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 time | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | cop |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 spread | mark |
| 9 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spread | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 dinner | case |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spread | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | table | until time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spread | to-infinitive | the table | for dinner | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location table=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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