Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 33
Then little Antonio Ca-no-va left his pans and kettles, and went up to the man who had caused the trouble.
Who acts: little Antonio, man · What happens: leave, go up, cause · To what, where: pans, trouble
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 (little Antonio, man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 left | advmod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Antonio | amod |
| 3 | Antonio | Antonio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 left | nsubj |
| 4 | Ca | Ca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Antonio | flat |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 va | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 va | det |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 no | punct |
| 8 | va | VA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 left | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pans | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pans | pan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 left | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kettles | cc |
| 13 | kettles | kettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pans | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 went | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 caused | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 caused | aux |
| 23 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 trouble | det |
| 25 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 caused | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | little Antonio | va's pans and kettles | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pan=Theme | |||
| 2 | go up | past | little Antonio not said here | to the man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | cause | past · perfect | the man | the trouble | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient |
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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