Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 56
And then he called to his head servant, and asked him where he had found so wonderful a statue.
Who acts: Count · What happens: call, ask, find · To what, where: head servant, Count · 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 (Count), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 called | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 called | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 servant | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 servant | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 servant | compound |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 found | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | advcl |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 wonderful | advmod |
| 18 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 found | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 statue | det |
| 20 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wonderful | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Count | Count's head servant | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Count not said here | Count | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | find | past · perfect | Count | wonderful property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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