Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 1
One summer day King Max-i-mil'ian of Ba-va'ri-a was walking in the country.
Who acts: King Max · What happens: walk · To what, where: country
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King Max), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:1393): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | compound |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walking | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Max | compound |
| 5 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 walking | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Max | punct |
| 7 | i | i | X | _ | 5 Max | goeswith |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Max | punct |
| 9 | mil'ian | mil'ian | X | _ | 5 Max | goeswith |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Ba | case |
| 11 | Ba | Ba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Max | nmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ba | punct |
| 13 | va'ri | va'ri | X | _ | 11 Ba | goeswith |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ba | punct |
| 15 | a | a | X | _ | 11 Ba | goeswith |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 walking | aux |
| 17 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walking | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | King Max of Ba | the country | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Trajectory |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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