Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 4
They were wel-comed with joy by all their people there, and the young prince was so gallant and kind, that he won the love of all who saw him.
Who acts: people, young prince, Prince, love · What happens: com, be, win, see · To what, where: Henry, love, Prince
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 (people, young prince, Prince, love), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 comed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 comed | aux:pass |
| 3 | wel | wel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 comed | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wel | punct |
| 5 | comed | com | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comed | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 people | det:predet |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 people | nmod:poss |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 comed | obl |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 comed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gallant | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gallant | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 prince | amod |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gallant | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 gallant | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 gallant | advmod |
| 20 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 comed | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kind | cc |
| 22 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gallant | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 won | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 won | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 won | nsubj |
| 26 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 comed | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 love | det |
| 28 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 won | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 all | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 love | nmod |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 saw | nsubj |
| 32 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 love | acl:relcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 saw | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | com | past · passive | Henry's people | Henry | there | with joy | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | past | the young prince | gallant property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the young prince not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | win | past | Prince | the love of all | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | see | past | the love of all | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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