Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 29

Was the dinner to be a failure after all?

What happens: be · To what, where: dinner, failure

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: 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dinner	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dinner	det
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 failure	csubj
4	to	to	PART	_	7 failure	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 failure	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 failure	det
7	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 failure	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 failure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the dinner					tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive		a failure			after all		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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