Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 6

But he liked to go with his grandfather to the stone-yard.

Who acts: boy · What happens: like, go

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 (boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 liked	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 liked	nsubj
3	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 liked	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 grandfather	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grandfather	nmod:poss
8	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 yard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 yard	det
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 yard	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 stone	punct
13	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	boy						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here					with boy's grandfather; to the stone yard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to yard=Initial_Location

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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