Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 7
While the old man was busy, cutting and trimming the great blocks of stone, the lad would play among the chips.
Who acts: old man, lad · What happens: be, cut, trim, play · To what, where: great blocks
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 (old man, lad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:1698): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 busy | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 busy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 busy | cop |
| 6 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 play | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cutting | punct |
| 8 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 busy | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 trimming | cc |
| 10 | trimming | trim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cutting | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 blocks | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blocks | amod |
| 13 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trimming | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blocks | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 busy | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lad | det |
| 18 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 play | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 play | aux |
| 20 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 chips | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 chips | det |
| 23 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 play | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old man | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut | gerund | the old man not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | trim | gerund | the old man not said here | the great blocks of stone | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent block=Patient | ||||
| 4 | play | would | the lad | among the chips | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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