Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 51
When the Count and his friends came in to dinner, the first thing they saw was the yellow lion.
Who acts: Count, things, first thing · What happens: come in, see, be · To what, where: dinner, first thing, yellow lion
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 (Count, things, first thing), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Count | det |
| 3 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 friends | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friends | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Count | conj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lion | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 dinner | case |
| 10 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lion | nsubj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thing | acl:relcl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lion | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lion | det |
| 19 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lion | amod |
| 20 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 lion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the Count and Count's friends | dinner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | things = thing | the first thing not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the first thing | the yellow lion | tree rules |
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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