Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 28

He turned away, and said, "I am not so silly as you think."

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: turn away, say, not be, think · 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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 turned	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 silly	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 silly	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 silly	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 silly	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 silly	advmod
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 silly	advmod
13	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 think	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 think	nsubj
16	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 silly	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	turn away	past	boy	away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	boy not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	present	boy	silly property	tree rules
4	think speech: other in a quote	present	you		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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