Fifty Famous Stories Retold, He Never Smiled Again., sentence 5
Before him passed the young and fair, In pleasure's reckless train; But seas dashed o'er his son's bright hair-- He never smiled again.
Who acts: life, seas · What happens: pass, dash, not smile · To what, where: young, reckless train
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 (life, seas), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 smiled | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 young | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 passed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fair | cc |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 young | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 train | punct |
| 9 | In | in | ADP | _ | 13 train | case |
| 10 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 train | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 pleasure | case |
| 12 | reckless | reckless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 train | amod |
| 13 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 dashed | punct |
| 15 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 seas | cc |
| 16 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dashed | nsubj |
| 17 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 18 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 23 hair | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hair | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 son | case |
| 22 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hair | amod |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dashed | obl |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 25 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 smiled | nsubj |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 smiled | advmod |
| 27 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 smiled | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | life | the young | pleasure's reckless train | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent young=Theme in train=Destination | |||
| 2 | dash | past | seas | o'er life's son's bright hair | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not smile | past | life | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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