Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 55
"Truly, my friends," he said, "this is as much of a surprise to me as to you."
Who acts: friends, this · What happens: say, be · 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 (friends, this), 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 | _ | 5 friends | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 friends | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friends | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friends | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friends | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 friends | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 much | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 much | punct |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 much | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 much | cop |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 surprise | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 surprise | det |
| 18 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 much | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 surprise | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 23 you | case |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 much | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my friends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | this | of a surprise to me; as you; much property | 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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