Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 229

Once, when she had ended the song, she said again, "Do you know the land?"

Who acts: dancing, you · What happens: end, say, know · To what, where: song, land · 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 (dancing, you), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 ended	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ended	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ended	aux
6	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 song	det
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ended	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ended	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
15	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 land	det
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 know	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	end	past · perfect	dancing	the song			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector song=Eventuality
2	say speech: ask	past	dancing		again	once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present · do-support	you	the land			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus

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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