Fifty Famous Stories Retold, He Never Smiled Again., sentence 4

There stood proud forms before his throne, The stately and the brave; But who could fill the place of one,-- That one beneath the wave?

What happens: stand, fill · To what, where: proud forms, throne, place

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: 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forms	amod
4	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obj
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 throne	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 throne	nmod:poss
7	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stately	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stately	det
10	stately	stately	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brave	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brave	det
13	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stately	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 fill	punct
15	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 fill	cc
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 fill	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fill	aux
18	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stood	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 place	det
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fill	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 one	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 place	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
25	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 one	det
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 fill	conj
27	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	29 wave	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wave	det
29	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 one	nmod
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		proud forms		life's throne; there		stately property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent form=Theme before throne=Destination
2	fill	could		the place of one					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent place=Patient

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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