Fifty Famous Stories Retold, George Washington and His Hatchet., sentence 2
It was bright and new, and George took great delight in going about and chopping things with it.
Who acts: ton, George · What happens: be, take, go about, chop · To what, where: great delight, things
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 (ton, George), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bright | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bright | cop |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 new | cc |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bright | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 8 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bright | conj |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 delight | amod |
| 11 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 going | mark |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 going | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chopping | cc |
| 16 | chopping | chop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 going | conj |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 chopping | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 chopping | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bright | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ton | bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | ton not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | take | past | George | great delight | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go about | gerund | George not said here | about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | chop | gerund | George not said here | things | with ton | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thing=Patient with it=Instrument |
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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