Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 2

The young man was noble and brave, and every-body hoped that he would some day be the King of England.

Who acts: young man, body · What happens: be, hope · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young man, body), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noble	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 noble	cop
5	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brave	cc
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 noble	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hoped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hoped	cc
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 body	det
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 every	punct
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hoped	nsubj
13	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 noble	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 would	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 would	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 King	aux
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 would	obl:unmarked
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 King	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 King	det
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hoped	ccomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 England	case
23	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 King	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 noble	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the young man		noble property	tree rules
2	be		the young man not said here			tree rules
3	hope	past	every body			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is a	would		the King	of England	tree rules

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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