Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 98
Charney trembled from head to foot.
Who acts: Charney · What happens: tremble
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), 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 | 2 trembled | nsubj |
| 2 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 head | case |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trembled | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 foot | case |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trembled | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | Charney | to foot; from head | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from head=Stimulus |
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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