Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 61
"My name is Antonio Canova," said the boy, "and I have had no teacher but my grandfather the stonecutter."
Who acts: name, Antonio, My · What happens: be, say, have, name · To what, where: Antonio, teacher · 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 (name, Antonio, My), 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 Antonio | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Antonio | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Antonio | cop |
| 5 | Antonio | Antonio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | Canova | Canova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Antonio | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Antonio | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Antonio | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | aux |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 teacher | det |
| 19 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 grandfather | cc |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 22 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stonecutter | det |
| 24 | stonecutter | stonecutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | My name | Antonio | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Antonio | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present · perfect | Antonio | no teacher | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name in a quote | My | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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