Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 5
But at last the time came for them to go back to England.
Who acts: last, Henry · What happens: come, go back · To what, where: England
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 (last, Henry), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 last | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 England | case |
| 13 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | last | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go back | to-infinitive | Henry | England | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to england=Result |
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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