Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 96

One day as he was looking from his window, he saw the jailer go across the yard.

Who acts: Charney, jailer · What happens: look, see, go · To what, where: One day, window · 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, jailer), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obl:unmarked
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 looking	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looking	aux
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 window	nmod:poss
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 jailer	det
14	jailer	jailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	nsubj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saw	ccomp
16	across	across	ADP	_	18 yard	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 yard	det
18	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	Charney	One day not said here	Charney's window			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme day=Attribute
2	see	past	Charney			day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	infinitive	the jailer				across the yard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across yard=Initial_Location

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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