Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 204
She tied a band about her eyes, and then the dancing began.
Who acts: MIGNON, dancing · What happens: tie, begin · To what, where: band
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, dancing), 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 tied | nsubj |
| 2 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 band | det |
| 4 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tied | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 band | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 began | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dancing | det |
| 12 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 began | nsubj |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tied | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | MIGNON | a band | about MIGNON's eyes | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the dancing | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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