Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 48
The king tried to do as he was bidden, but he could not make a sound.
Who acts: king · What happens: try, do, bid, not make · To what, where: king, sound
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), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 bidden | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bidden | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bidden | aux:pass |
| 9 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 do | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 make | advmod |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sound | det |
| 17 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the king | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bid | past · passive | king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not make | could | king | a sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product |
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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