Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 24

"I would like it," said the boy; "but I never hope to have so much."

Who acts: boy, king · What happens: like, say, not hope, 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 (boy, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 hope	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hope	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 hope	advmod
16	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hope	xcomp
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	18 have	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like in a quote	would	the boy = boy	piece	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the boy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not hope in a quote	present	king		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	king not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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