Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 219

He told how she had sung it to him over and over again.

Who acts: Wilhelm, MIGNON · What happens: tell, sing · To what, where: music, Wilhelm · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sung	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sung	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sung	aux
6	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sung	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sung	obl
10	over	over	ADV	_	6 sung	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 again	cc
12	over	over	ADV	_	13 again	advmod
13	again	again	ADV	_	10 over	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Wilhelm						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sing speech: express	past · perfect	MIGNON	music	Wilhelm			over property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to he=Recipient

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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