Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 42
Why, they would run away from you in a minute."
Who acts: geese · What happens: run away
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 (geese), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 run | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 run | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | aux |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 away | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 minute | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 minute | det |
| 11 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | would | geese = goose | minute | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP 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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