Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 46
In a few minutes he had molded it into the shape of a crouching lion; and all the servants crowded around to see it.
Who acts: Antonio · What happens: mold, crouch, see · To what, where: butter, shape
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 molded | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 molded | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 molded | aux |
| 7 | molded | mold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 molded | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 shape | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shape | det |
| 11 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 molded | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lion | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lion | det |
| 14 | crouching | crouch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 lion | amod |
| 15 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shape | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 crowded | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crowded | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 servants | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 servants | det |
| 20 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 crowded | nsubj |
| 21 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 molded | conj |
| 22 | around | around | ADV | _ | 21 crowded | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 crowded | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 molded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mold | past · perfect | Antonio | butter | the shape of a crouching lion | minute | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into shape=Product | ||
| 2 | crouch | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Antonio not said here | butter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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