Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 66

The best artists in the land were em-ployed to teach him the art in which he had shown so much skill; but now, instead of carving butter, he chis-eled marble.

Who acts: best artists, artist, chis · What happens: be, teach, show, carve, chi, el · To what, where: art, artist, much skill, butter, marble

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 (best artists, artist, chis), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 artists	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 artists	amod
3	artists	artist	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 em-ployed	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 land	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 artists	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 em-ployed	cop
8	em-ployed	em-ployed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 teach	mark
10	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 em-ployed	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 teach	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 art	det
13	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 teach	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 shown	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shown	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shown	aux
18	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 art	acl:relcl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 skill	amod
21	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shown	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 carving	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 carving	cc
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 carving	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 carving	punct
26	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 carving	mark
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 instead	fixed
28	carving	carve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 em-ployed	advcl
29	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carving	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 chis	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 chis	nsubj
32	chis	chi	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 em-ployed	parataxis
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 chis	punct
34	eled	el	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 chis	acl
35	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eled	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 em-ployed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the best artists in the land				em-ployed property	tree rules
2	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	the best artists in the land not said here	the art	artist			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient art=Topic
3	show	past · perfect	artist	much skill			in the art	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent skill=Patient in which=Topic
4	carve	gerund	the best artists in the land not said here	butter		now		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme
5	chi		artist					tree rules
6	el	participle	chis not said here	marble				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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