Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 201
At each corner she placed a candle, and on the carpet she put a number of eggs.
Who acts: MIGNON · What happens: place, put · To what, where: candle, corner, number, carpet
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 corner | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 corner | det |
| 3 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 placed | nsubj |
| 5 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 candle | det |
| 7 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 carpet | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 carpet | det |
| 12 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | nsubj |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 number | det |
| 16 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 eggs | case |
| 18 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 number | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | MIGNON | a candle | each corner | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent candle=Theme at corner=Destination | |||
| 2 | put | past | MIGNON | a number of eggs | the carpet | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme on carpet=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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