Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 213
When the dance was ended, Mignon rolled the eggs together with her foot into a little heap.
Who acts: dance, ended Mignon · What happens: be, roll · To what, where: eggs, little heap
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 (dance, ended 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 ended | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dance | det |
| 3 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | cop |
| 5 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Mignon | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ended | punct |
| 7 | Mignon | Mignon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rolled | nsubj |
| 8 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eggs | det |
| 10 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rolled | obj |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 rolled | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 foot | nmod:poss |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rolled | obl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 heap | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 heap | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heap | amod |
| 18 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rolled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dance | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roll | past | ended Mignon | the eggs | into a little heap result; with MIGNON's foot; together property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent egg=Patient with foot=Instrument into heap=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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