Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 9
He showed so much skill that his grandfather was de-light-ed.
Who acts: lad, much skill · What happens: show, be · To what, where: much skill, de light ed
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 (lad, much skill), 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 | 2 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skill | amod |
| 5 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 ed | nsubj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 8 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ed | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ed | cop |
| 10 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ed | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 de | punct |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ed | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 light | punct |
| 14 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skill | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | lad | much skill | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent skill=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | much skill | de light ed | tree rules |
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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