Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 21

Then there was a crash in the dining room, and a man rushed into the kitchen with some pieces of marble in his hands.

What happens: be, rush · To what, where: man, kitchen

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: 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 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crash	det
5	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
8	dining	dining	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	compound
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crash	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 man	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 man	acl
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 kitchen	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kitchen	det
17	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rushed	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 pieces	case
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 pieces	det
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rushed	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 marble	case
22	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pieces	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hands	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hands	nmod:poss
25	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 marble	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a man					tree rules
2	rush	participle		a man not said here				into the kitchen result; with some pieces of marble in crash's hands	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Result

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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