Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 215
Then she took the band from her eyes, and made a little bow.
Who acts: MIGNON · What happens: take, make · To what, where: band, eyes, little bow
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 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 band | det |
| 5 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bow | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bow | amod |
| 14 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | MIGNON | the band | MIGNON's eyes | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent band=Theme from eye=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | make | past | MIGNON not said here | a little bow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bow=Product |
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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