Fifty Famous Stories Retold, George Washington and His Hatchet., sentence 3

He ran into the garden, and there he saw a tree which seemed to say to him, "Come and cut me down!"

Who acts: George, tree · What happens: run, see, seem, say, come, cut down · To what, where: garden, tree, George, me · 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, tree), 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	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 saw	expl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tree	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 seemed	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 say	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Come	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Come	punct
21	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 saw	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cut	cc
23	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Come	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 cut	obj
25	down	down	ADP	_	23 cut	compound:prt
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	George				into the garden result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result
2	see	past	George	a tree		there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
3	seem	past	a tree					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	a tree not said here		George			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	come in a quote	infinitive	George not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cut down in a quote	infinitive	George not said here	me				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product

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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