Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 3
He was the worst king that England ever had.
Who acts: king, England · What happens: be, have · To what, where: worst king
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, England), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 king | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 4 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 king | amod |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | obj |
| 7 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 had | advmod |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | king | the worst king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | England | the worst king | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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