Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 4
An-to-ni-o was a puny lad, and not strong enough to work.
Who acts: ni o · What happens: be, work · To what, where: puny lad
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 (ni o), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 o | det |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ni | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 ni | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 to | punct |
| 5 | ni | no | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 o | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ni | punct |
| 7 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lad | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lad | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lad | det |
| 10 | puny | puny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lad | amod |
| 11 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 strong | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 strong | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 strong | advmod |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lad | acl:relcl |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 strong | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 work | mark |
| 18 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 strong | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a ni o | a puny lad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | a ni o not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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