Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 57

"It was carved only an hour ago by a little boy in the kitchen," said the servant.

Who acts: little boy, servant · What happens: carve, say · To what, where: statue · 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 (little boy, servant), 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	_	4 carved	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carved	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carved	aux:pass
4	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 said	ccomp
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 hour	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ago	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 carved	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 boy	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carved	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 kitchen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kitchen	det
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carved	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 servant	det
20	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve in a quote	past · passive	a little boy in the kitchen	statue				ago property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the servant						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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