Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 5
Then he took a little book from his pocket and tried to read.
Who acts: king · What happens: take, try, read · To what, where: little book, pocket
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 book | amod |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 pocket | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 9 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl | ||
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tried | cc |
| 11 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 read | mark |
| 13 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tried | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | king | a little book | king's pocket | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent book=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | try | past | king not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | read not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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