Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 14
"A hawk," answered Robert. "
Who acts: hawk · What happens: answer · To what, where: Robert
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 (hawk), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hawk | det |
| 3 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hawk | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hawk | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | a hawk | Robert | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent robert=Eventuality |
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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