Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 23

"My boy," he said, "how would you like to have this piece of money?"

Who acts: king, you · What happens: say, like, have · To what, where: piece · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 boy	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 boy	nmod:poss
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 boy	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 boy	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 like	advmod
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 like	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 like	nsubj
13	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 have	mark
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 like	xcomp
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 piece	det
17	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 money	case
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 piece	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	would	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	this piece of money	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient

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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