Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 64

They could not say enough in praise of his work; and when at last they sat down at the table, nothing would please them but that Antonio should have a seat with them; and the dinner was made a feast in his honor.

Who acts: guests, nothing, Antonio, lad · What happens: not say, sit down, please, have, make, praise · To what, where: enough, praise, last, guests, seat, dinner · 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 (guests, nothing, Antonio, lad), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 praise	case
7	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 work	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 work	nmod:poss
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 praise	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sat	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 sat	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sat	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sat	nsubj
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	advcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 sat	compound:prt
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 table	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 table	det
21	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 please	punct
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 please	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 please	aux
25	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	parataxis
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 please	obj
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 have	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 have	mark
29	Antonio	Antonio	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 have	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 please	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 seat	det
33	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seat	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 made	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 made	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 dinner	det
39	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 made	nsubj:pass
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 made	aux:pass
41	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 say	ccomp
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 feast	det
43	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 made	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 honor	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 honor	nmod:poss
46	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 feast	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	could	guests = guest	enough	praise of lad's work		tree rules
2	sit down	past	guests = guest		last	at the table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location
3	please	would	nothing	guests = guest			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
4	have	should	Antonio	a seat		with guests = guest	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient
5	make	past · passive		the dinner			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary feast=Product
6	praise			lad's work			nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	work		lad				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent
8	honor		lad				nom honor «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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