Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 43
And Henry, the Handsome Scholar, had not only the chest of gold for his own, but he became by and by the King of England and the ruler of all the lands that his father had had in France.
Who acts: Henry, father · What happens: have, become · To what, where: chest, lands, France
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 (Henry, father), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 2 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Scholar | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Scholar | det |
| 5 | Handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Scholar | amod |
| 6 | Scholar | Scholar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Henry | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Henry | punct |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 chest | advmod |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 chest | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chest | det |
| 12 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chest | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 own | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 own | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chest | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 became | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 became | nsubj |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 became | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 King | cc |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 King | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 became | xcomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 England | case |
| 28 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 King | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ruler | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ruler | det |
| 31 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 England | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 lands | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 lands | det:predet |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 lands | det |
| 35 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 ruler | nmod |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 had | obj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 father | nmod:poss |
| 38 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 had | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 had | aux |
| 40 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 lands | acl:relcl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 France | case |
| 42 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 had | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Henry and the Handsome Scholar | the chest of gold | for Henry's own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Patient | |||
| 2 | become | past | Henry | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | have | past · perfect | Henry's father | all lands | France | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
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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