Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 84

It had sprouted; and now a tiny green leaf was pushing its way up out of the ground.

Who acts: tiny green leaf · What happens: sprout, push up · To what, where: seed, way, ground

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 (tiny green leaf), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprouted	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprouted	aux
3	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 sprouted	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pushing	cc
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 pushing	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 leaf	det
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 leaf	amod
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 leaf	amod
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pushing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pushing	aux
12	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sprouted	conj
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pushing	obj
15	up	up	ADV	_	12 pushing	advmod
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 ground	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pushing	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sprouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprout	past · perfect · passive		seed					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source
2	push up	past · progressive	a tiny green leaf	seed's way		the ground	now		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme out ground=Trajectory

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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