Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 20

He was tending a large flock of geese that were picking the short grass, and wading in a shallow brook.

Who acts: king, geese · What happens: tend, pick, wade · To what, where: large flock, short grass, shallow brook

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, geese), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tending	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tending	aux
3	tending	tend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flock	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flock	amod
6	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tending	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 geese	case
8	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flock	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 picking	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 picking	aux
11	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 geese	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grass	amod
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picking	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wading	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wading	cc
17	wading	wade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tending	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 brook	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 brook	det
20	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 brook	amod
21	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wading	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tending	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tend	past · progressive	king	a large flock of geese		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme
2	pick	past · progressive	geese	the short grass		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
3	wade	gerund	king not said here		a shallow brook	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brook=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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