Fifty Famous Stories Retold, He Never Smiled Again., sentence 1
The bark that held the prince went down, The sweeping waves rolled on; And what was England's glorious crown To him that wept a son?
Who acts: bark, glorious crown · What happens: hold, go down, roll on, be, weep · To what, where: prince, sweeping waves, glorious crown, bark, son
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, He Never Smiled Again.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bark, glorious crown), 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 | 2 bark | det |
| 2 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 held | nsubj |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bark | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waves | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 waves | det |
| 11 | sweeping | sweeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 waves | amod |
| 12 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | parataxis |
| 13 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 waves | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 rolled | compound:prt |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 crown | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crown | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 crown | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 crown | cop |
| 19 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 crown | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 England | case |
| 21 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 crown | amod |
| 22 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 23 | To | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 crown | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 wept | nsubj |
| 26 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 crown | acl:relcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 son | det |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wept | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the bark | the prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | the bark | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | roll on | participle | the sweeping waves not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | England's glorious crown | bark | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | weep | past | England's glorious crown | a son | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
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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