Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 59
"My lad," he said, "you have done a piece of work of which the greatest artists would be proud.
Who acts: bade, you, greatest artists · What happens: say, do, be · To what, where: piece · 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 (bade, you, greatest artists), 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 | _ | 3 lad | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lad | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lad | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lad | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 piece | det |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 done | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 work | case |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 proud | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 artists | det |
| 20 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 artists | amod |
| 21 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 proud | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 proud | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 proud | cop |
| 24 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 work | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | bade | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · perfect | you | a piece of work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | would | the greatest artists | of work; proud 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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