Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 39
"Oh, I will tend them while you are away," said the king.
Who acts: king, you · What happens: tend, be, say · 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 (king, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tend | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 tend | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 tend | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 tend | aux |
| 6 | tend | tend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tend | obj |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 away | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 away | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 away | cop |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 tend | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tend | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tend | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tend in a quote | future | the king = king | geese = goose | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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