Fifty Famous Stories Retold, George Washington and His Hatchet., sentence 1

When George Wash-ing-ton was quite a little boy, his father gave him a hatchet.

Who acts: George ing ton, father · What happens: be, give · To what, where: little boy, hatchet, boy

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, George Washington and His Hatchet.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George ing ton, father), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	12 boy	mark
2	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ton	compound
3	Wash	Wash	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 George	flat
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 George	punct
5	ing	ing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ton	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ing	punct
7	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 boy	cop
9	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	12 boy	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 boy	punct
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hatchet	det
19	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	George ing ton	quite little boy					tree rules
2	give	past	boy's father	a hatchet	boy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hatchet=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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