Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 48
It is a great deal pret-ti-er than the statue that was broken."
Who acts: butter · What happens: be, break · To what, where: ti er, statue
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 (butter), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 er | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 er | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deal | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deal | amod |
| 5 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 er | nsubj |
| 6 | pret | pret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 er | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 pret | punct |
| 8 | ti | ti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 er | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 er | punct |
| 10 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 statue | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 statue | det |
| 13 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 er | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 broken | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | aux:pass |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 statue | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 er | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | butter | ti er | than the statue | tree rules | |||
| 2 | break | past · passive | the statue | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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