Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 46
"What is the matter now?" said Max-i-mil-ian.
Who acts: i · What happens: be, say · To what, where: matter, Max · 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 (i), 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 matter | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 matter | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Max | punct |
| 12 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 i | punct |
| 14 | mil | mil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 i | conj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ian | punct |
| 16 | ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mil | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the matter | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | i | Max | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent max=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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