Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 85
Charney was about to crush it with his foot, when he saw that there was a kind of soft coating over the leaf.
Who acts: Charney, kind · What happens: be, crush, see · To what, where: seed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Charney, kind), 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 | Charney | Charney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 about | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 crush | mark |
| 5 | crush | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 about | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 crush | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 foot | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 foot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crush | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 was | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 kind | det |
| 18 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 coating | case |
| 20 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 coating | amod |
| 21 | coating | coating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kind | nmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 leaf | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 leaf | det |
| 24 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coating | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Charney | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crush | to-infinitive | Charney not said here | seed | with Charney's foot | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with foot=Instrument | |||
| 3 | see | past | Charney | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be | past | a kind of soft coating over the leaf | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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