Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 31

"Well," said the boy, "you think that I am silly enough to believe that you will give me that gold piece for running a mile, and fetch-ing you a book.

Who acts: boy, you, gold piece · What happens: say, think, be, believe, give, run · To what, where: gold piece, boy, mile, you · 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, gold piece), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 think	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 think	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 think	nsubj
11	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 silly	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 silly	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 silly	cop
15	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 think	ccomp
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 silly	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 believe	mark
18	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 silly	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 give	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 believe	ccomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 piece	mark
25	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 piece	compound
26	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 running	mark
28	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 piece	acl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mile	det
30	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 running	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ing	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ing	cc
33	fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ing	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 fetch	punct
35	ing	e	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 ing	obj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 book	det
38	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ing	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other in a quote	present	you				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the boy = boy			enough, silly property	tree rules
4	believe in a quote	to-infinitive	the boy = boy not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	give in a quote	future	you	gold piece	the boy = boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient piece=Theme
6	run in a quote	gerund	gold piece not said here	a mile			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory
7	e in a quote	gerund	the boy not said here	you			tree rules

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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