Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 95

He wanted to see if it had been chilled by the cold, or scorched by the sun. He wanted to see how much it had grown.

Who acts: Charney, cold, sun., plant · What happens: want, see, chill, scorch, grow · To what, where: plant, sun., much · 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, cold, sun., plant), 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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 chilled	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chilled	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chilled	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 chilled	aux:pass
9	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 see	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 cold	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cold	det
12	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chilled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 scorched	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 scorched	cc
15	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wanted	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 sun.	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun.	det
18	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scorched	obl
19	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sun.	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 see	obj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 grown	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 grown	aux
27	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 see	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	Charney			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Charney not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	chill a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	the cold	plant		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4	scorch	participle	Charney not said here		by the sun.	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	want	past	Charney	the sun. not said here		tree rules
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	the sun. not said here	much		tree rules
7	grow	past · perfect	plant			vn appear-48.1.1 «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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