Fifty Famous Stories Retold, George Washington and His Hatchet., sentence 5
So he set to work with his little hatchet, and, as the tree was a very small one, it did not take long to lay it low.
Who acts: George, tree, it · What happens: set, work, be, not take, lay · To what, where: tree
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, it), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 work | mark |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hatchet | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hatchet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hatchet | amod |
| 9 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 one | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 one | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 small | advmod |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 take | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 take | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 take | advmod |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 one | parataxis |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 take | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 lay | mark |
| 28 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 take | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lay | obj |
| 30 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lay | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | George | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | George not said here | with George's little hatchet | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hatchet=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the tree | as a small one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not take | past · do-support | it | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | lay | to-infinitive | tree | low property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result |
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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