Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 12
He was a tall, willful lad, and was nick-named Short Stocking.
Who acts: first · What happens: be, name, stock · To what, where: tall willful lad
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first), 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 | 7 lad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lad | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lad | det |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lad | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tall | punct |
| 6 | willful | willful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lad | amod |
| 7 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 named | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 named | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 named | aux:pass |
| 11 | nick | nick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 named | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 nick | punct |
| 13 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lad | parataxis |
| 14 | Short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 named | xcomp |
| 15 | Stocking | stock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 Short | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | first | a tall willful lad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name | past · passive | short property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | stock | gerund | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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