Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 41
"Let the boy try what he can do," said the servants, who knew him.
Who acts: boy, servants · What happens: let, try, do, say, know · To what, where: boy · 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 (boy, servants), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 try | nsubj |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | parataxis |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 try | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 servants | det |
| 14 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 servants | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | try in a quote | present | the boy | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen, in a quote | can | boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the servants | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | know | past | the servants | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=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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