Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 34
"If you had another statue, could you arrange the table?" he asked.
Who acts: you, Antonio · What happens: have, arrange, ask · To what, where: statue, table · 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 (you, Antonio), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrange | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 arrange | advcl |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 statue | det |
| 6 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 arrange | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 arrange | nsubj |
| 10 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 table | det |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrange | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrange | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrange | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | another statue | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Patient | ||||
| 2 | arrange in a quote | could | you | the table | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Product | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Antonio | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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