Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 17

His face was jolly and round, and because he had red hair he was nicknamed Rufus, or the Red.

Who acts: face · What happens: be, nickname · To what, where: William

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 (face), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 face	nmod:poss
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jolly	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jolly	cop
4	jolly	jolly	ADV	_	16 nicknamed	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 round	cc
6	round	round	ADV	_	4 jolly	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nicknamed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 nicknamed	cc
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 nicknamed	aux
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hair	amod
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 nicknamed	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 nicknamed	aux:pass
16	nicknamed	nickname	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	Rufus	Rufus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 nicknamed	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Red	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 Red	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Red	det
21	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Rufus	appos
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 nicknamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	William's face					jolly property	tree rules
2	nickname	past · passive		William					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result

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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