Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 15
The king was already quite tired, and he did not like to walk back so far.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, not like, walk back
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tired | cop |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 tired | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 tired | advmod |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 like | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 like | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 like | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 like | advmod |
| 12 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tired | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 walk | mark |
| 14 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 like | xcomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 walk | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 far | advmod |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 walk | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not like | past · do-support | king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | walk back not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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