Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 22
Lastly came the youngest brother, Henry, with quiet steps and a sober, thought-ful look.
Who acts: youngest brother · What happens: come, think
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 (youngest brother), 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 | Lastly | lastly | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 4 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Henry | punct |
| 7 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brother | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 steps | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 steps | case |
| 10 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 steps | amod |
| 11 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 look | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 look | det |
| 14 | sober | sober | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 look | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sober | punct |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 look | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 18 | ful | ful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 look | amod |
| 19 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 steps | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the youngest brother | with quiet steps and a sober thought ful look; lastly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | participle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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