Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 226

He wrote them down; but the sweetness of the tune was more delightful than the words.

Who acts: Wilhelm, sweetness · What happens: write down, be · To what, where: eggs

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, sweetness), 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 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 wrote	compound:prt
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 delightful	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 delightful	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sweetness	det
8	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 delightful	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tune	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tune	det
11	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sweetness	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 delightful	cop
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 delightful	advmod
14	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wrote	parataxis
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 words	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 words	det
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 delightful	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	past	Wilhelm	eggs = egg					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	past	the sweetness of the tune					than the words; delightful property	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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