Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 26

I cannot make the table look pretty without the statue.

Who acts: I, table · What happens: not make, not look · To what, where: table

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 (I, table), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
8	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 statue	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 statue	det
11	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	can	I	the table					tree rules
2	not look	infinitive	the table not said here					without the statue; pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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