Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 200
Then she brought a little carpet, and spread it upon the floor.
Who acts: MIGNON · What happens: bring, spread · To what, where: little carpet, carpet, floor
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 carpet | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 carpet | amod |
| 6 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spread | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spread | cc |
| 9 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spread | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 floor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spread | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | MIGNON | a little carpet | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent carpet=Theme | |||
| 2 | spread | past | MIGNON not said here | carpet | the floor | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon floor=Destination |
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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