Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 4
Now, there was in the town of Can'ter-bur-y a rich old abbot who lived in grand style in a great house called the Abbey.
Who acts: rich old abbot · What happens: be, live, call · To what, where: town, grand style, great house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rich old abbot), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bur | case |
| 9 | Can'ter | Can'ter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bur | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Can'ter | punct |
| 11 | bur | bur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 town | nmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 y | punct |
| 13 | y | y | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bur | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 abbot | det |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 abbot | amod |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 abbot | amod |
| 17 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bur | conj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lived | nsubj |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 abbot | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 style | case |
| 21 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 style | amod |
| 22 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 house | amod |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obl |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 house | acl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Abbey | det |
| 29 | Abbey | Abbey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 called | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the town of Can'ter bur and a rich old abbot; there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a rich old abbot | grand style | in a great house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in style=Location | |||
| 3 | call | participle | a great house not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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