Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 93

He staid by it a long time, looking at all its parts.

What happens: look

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: 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 staid	nsubj
2	staid	staid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 staid	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 staid	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looking	punct
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 staid	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 parts	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 parts	det:predet
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 parts	nmod:poss
13	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 looking	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 staid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						at plant's parts	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at part=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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