Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 8
"The plan is well worth trying, at least," said the king. "
Who acts: plan, king · What happens: be, try, say · To what, where: least · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (plan, king), 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 worth | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plan | det |
| 3 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worth | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 worth | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 worth | advmod |
| 6 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 worth | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 least | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 least | case |
| 10 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 worth | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 worth | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 worth | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 worth | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 worth | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the plan | least | well, worth property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | try in a quote | gerund | the plan not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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