Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 50

"The table will be hand-som-er by half than I ever hoped to make it," he said.

Who acts: table, man · What happens: be, hope, make, say · To what, where: hand som er, half, table · 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 (table, man), 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	_	10 er	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 er	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 er	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 er	cop
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 er	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct
8	som	som	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 er	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 som	punct
10	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	ccomp
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 half	case
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	10 er	nmod
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 hoped	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hoped	nsubj
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 hoped	advmod
16	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 half	acl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hoped	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 make	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 er	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 er	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	future	the table	hand som er		by half	tree rules
2	hope in a quote	past	man	half not said here	ever		tree rules
3	make not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here	table			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	say speech: assert	past	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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