Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 44
Two hundred pounds the lump weighed, and it had just come in, fresh and clean, from the dairy on the mountain.
Who acts: hundred pounds, lump · What happens: weigh, come in · To what, where: dairy
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 (hundred pounds, lump), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pounds | nummod |
| 3 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 weighed | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lump | det |
| 5 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weighed | nsubj |
| 6 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 weighed | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fresh | punct |
| 15 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 come | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clean | cc |
| 17 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fresh | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dairy | punct |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 dairy | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dairy | det |
| 21 | dairy | dairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 mountain | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mountain | det |
| 24 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dairy | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 weighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh | past | hundred pounds | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come in | past | lump | the dairy on the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dairy=Initial_Location |
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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