Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 224
Its music, too, was strange to him, and yet it pleased him very much.
Who acts: music · What happens: be · To what, where: 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 (music), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 music | nmod:poss |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strange | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 music | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 music | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 music | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 strange | cop |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 strange | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleased | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pleased | cc |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 pleased | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pleased | nsubj |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 strange | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pleased | obl |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 pleased | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | song's music | Wilhelm | strange property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | music | Wilhelm | yet | 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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