Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 19
While he was thinking, he happened to see a little bare-foot-ed boy in the open field near the road.
Who acts: king · What happens: think, happen, see · To what, where: little ed boy, open field
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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 thinking | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thinking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | aux |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 happened | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happened | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boy | amod |
| 12 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 foot | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bare | punct |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ed | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 foot | punct |
| 16 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 boy | compound |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 field | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 field | det |
| 20 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 field | amod |
| 21 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 boy | nmod |
| 22 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 road | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 field | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | king | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | king not said here | a little ed boy | the open field near the road | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |
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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