Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 3
One summer Prince William went with his father across the sea to look after their lands in France.
Who acts: William · What happens: go, look · To what, where: sea
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 (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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 summer | nummod |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 William | nmod:desc |
| 4 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 look | mark |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 lands | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lands | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 look | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 France | case |
| 18 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lands | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | William Prince | the sea | summer | with William's father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across sea=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | William Prince not said here | after Henry's lands in France | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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