Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 217

He praised her, petted her, and hoped that she had not tired herself too much.

Who acts: Wilhelm · What happens: praise, pet, hope · To what, where: MIGNON

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 praised	nsubj
2	praised	praise	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 praised	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 petted	punct
5	petted	pet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 praised	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 petted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hoped	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hoped	cc
9	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 praised	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 tired	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tired	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tired	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tired	advmod
14	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hoped	ccomp
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 tired	obl
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	9 hoped	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 praised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	praise	past	Wilhelm	MIGNON	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	pet	past	Wilhelm not said here	MIGNON	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
3	hope	past			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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