Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 45
With a kitchen knife in his hand, Antonio began to cut and carve this butter.
Who acts: Antonio · What happens: begin, cut, carve · To what, where: butter
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 (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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 knife | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 knife | det |
| 3 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knife | compound |
| 4 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knife | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knife | punct |
| 9 | Antonio | Antonio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 cut | mark |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carve | cc |
| 14 | carve | carve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cut | conj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 butter | det |
| 16 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carve | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Antonio | with a kitchen knife in boy's hand | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cut | to-infinitive | Antonio not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | carve | infinitive | Antonio not said here | this butter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme |
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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