Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 37

The boy said, "I would like to go; but I can't leave the geese.

Who acts: boy · What happens: say, like, go, not leave · To what, where: geese · 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), 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	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 like	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 leave	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 leave	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 leave	nsubj
14	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 leave	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 leave	advmod
16	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 geese	det
18	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 leave	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the boy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	would	the boy = boy		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the boy = boy not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not leave in a quote	can	the boy = boy	the geese	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=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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