Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 34
The boy's eyes spar-kled; but he did not move.
Who acts: eyes, boy · What happens: kl, not move
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 (eyes, boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 boy | case |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kled | nsubj |
| 5 | spar | spar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kled | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 spar | punct |
| 7 | kled | kl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 move | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 move | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 move | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 move | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 move | advmod |
| 13 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kled | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kl | participle | the boy's eyes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not move | past · do-support | boy | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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