Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 53

None but a very great artist could ever carve such a figure; and how odd that he should choose to make it of butter!"

Who acts: None, work · What happens: carve, choose, make · To what, where: figure

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 (None, work), 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	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 carve	nsubj
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 artist	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 artist	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 great	advmod
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 artist	amod
6	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 None	conj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 carve	aux
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 carve	advmod
9	carve	carve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 figure	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 figure	det
12	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carve	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 odd	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 odd	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 odd	advmod
16	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 carve	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 choose	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 choose	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 choose	aux
20	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 odd	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 choose	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 make	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 butter	case
25	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 carve	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 carve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	carve	could	None	such figure	ever		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme
2	choose	should	work				tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive	work not said here	figure		of butter	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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