Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 78
One fine morning in spring, Char-ney was taking his walk in the yard.
Who acts: Char ney, work · What happens: take, walk · To what, where: walk
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 (Char ney, work), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 morning | nummod |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 spring | case |
| 5 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 7 | Char | Char | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ney | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Char | punct |
| 9 | ney | ney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taking | aux |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 walk | nmod:poss |
| 13 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 yard | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 yard | det |
| 16 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · progressive | Char ney | work's walk | morning | in the yard | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent walk=Value in yard=Location | ||
| 2 | walk | work | nom walk «act 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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