Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 39
Robert, the Short Stocking, was bold and reckless, like the hawk which he so much admired.
Who acts: Robert · What happens: be, admire · To what, where: hawk
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 (Robert), 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 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bold | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Stocking | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Stocking | det |
| 4 | Short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Stocking | amod |
| 5 | Stocking | stocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Robert | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Robert | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bold | cop |
| 8 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reckless | cc |
| 10 | reckless | reckless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bold | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hawk | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 hawk | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hawk | det |
| 14 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bold | conj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 admired | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 admired | nsubj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 admired | advmod |
| 19 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 hawk | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Robert | bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Robert not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | admire | participle · passive | the hawk | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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