Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 73
He was not allowed to have pens or paper, and so he could not write.
Who acts: gentleman · What happens: not allow, have, not write · To what, where: gentleman, pens
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 (gentleman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | pens | pen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 paper | cc |
| 9 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pens | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 write | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 write | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 write | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 write | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 write | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 write | advmod |
| 16 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | past · passive | gentleman | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | gentleman not said here | pens or paper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not write | could | gentleman | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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