Fifty Famous Stories Retold, George Washington and His Hatchet., sentence 15

"George," he said, and he took the little fellow in his arms, "George, I am glad that you told me about it.

Who acts: George, you · What happens: say, take, be, tell · To what, where: little fellow, arms, George · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 George	punct
2	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 George	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 George	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fellow	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fellow	amod
13	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 arms	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arms	nmod:poss
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fellow	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 George	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 George	punct
19	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fellow	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 glad	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 glad	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 glad	cop
23	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 took	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 told	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 glad	advcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	George					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	past	George	the little fellow George		George's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fellow=Value in arm=Location
3	is in a quote	present	George				glad property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	you		George		about anger	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about it=Topic

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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