Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 16
But he did not wish to lose the book.
Who acts: king · What happens: not wish, lose · To what, where: book
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 wish | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wish | advmod |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lose | mark |
| 7 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 book | det |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lose | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish | past · do-support | king | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lose not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | the book | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Eventuality |
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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