Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 1

King Henry, the Handsome Scholar, had one son, named William, whom he dearly loved.

Who acts: Henry, William · What happens: have, name, love · To what, where: one son, William

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henry, William), 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Henry	nmod:desc
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	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 son	nummod
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 named	punct
12	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 son	acl
13	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 named	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 loved	punct
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 loved	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 loved	nsubj
17	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	18 loved	advmod
18	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 William	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Henry King and the Handsome Scholar	one son		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	name	participle		one son not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	love	past	William	William	dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=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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