Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 83

A seed of some kind had fallen between the stones.

Who acts: seed · What happens: fall · To what, where: stones

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 (seed), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 seed	det
2	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fallen	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 kind	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 kind	det
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seed	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fallen	aux
7	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	between	between	ADP	_	10 stones	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stones	det
10	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fallen	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	a seed of some kind			the stones			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between stone=Location

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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