Fifty Famous Stories Retold, George Washington and His Hatchet., sentence 4

George had often seen his father's men chop down the great trees in the forest, and he thought that it would be fine sport to see this tree fall with a crash to the ground.

Who acts: George, seen men, tree · What happens: see, chop down, think, be, fall · To what, where: great trees, forest, fine sport · 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, seen men, 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	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 men	amod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 men	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 father	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chop	nsubj
9	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	13 trees	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trees	amod
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chop	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chop	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thought	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chop	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 sport	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sport	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 sport	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 sport	cop
25	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sport	amod
26	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thought	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 see	mark
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sport	acl
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 tree	det
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fall	nsubj
31	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 see	ccomp
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 crash	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 crash	det
34	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fall	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 ground	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ground	det
37	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crash	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 chop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	George			often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	chop down	present	George's father's seen men	the great trees	the forest		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Patient in forest=Location
3	think speech: other	past	George				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	would	tree	fine sport			tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	George not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	fall	infinitive	this tree			with a crash to the ground	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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