Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 11
When he had walked a mile or more, he happened to think of his book.
Who acts: king · What happens: walk, happen, think · To what, where: mile
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), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 walked | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | aux |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 happened | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mile | det |
| 6 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 more | cc |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 mile | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 happened | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 book | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 book | nmod:poss |
| 16 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 think | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect | king | a mile | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | king not said here | of king's book | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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