Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 216
Wilhelm thanked her for showing him a dance that was so wonderful and pretty.
Who acts: Wilhelm, dance · What happens: thank, show, be · To what, where: MIGNON, dance, Wilhelm
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 (Wilhelm, dance), 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 | Wilhelm | Wilhelm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | obj |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 showing | mark |
| 5 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thanked | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 showing | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dance | det |
| 8 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 showing | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wonderful | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wonderful | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 wonderful | advmod |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dance | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pretty | cc |
| 14 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wonderful | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Wilhelm | MIGNON | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | gerund | Wilhelm not said here | a dance | Wilhelm | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dance=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | past | a dance | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | a dance not said here | tree rules |
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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