Fifty Famous Stories Retold, George Washington and His Hatchet., sentence 7
"Who has been cutting my fine young cherry tree?" he cried. "
Who acts: father · What happens: cut, cry · To what, where: fine young cherry tree · 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 (father), 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 | _ | 5 cutting | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 cutting | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cutting | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 cutting | aux |
| 5 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tree | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 9 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cutting | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cutting | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cutting | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cutting | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cutting | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cutting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | my fine young cherry tree | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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