Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 51
Then he took the whip, and gave the king lessons in whip cracking. "
Who acts: boy · What happens: take, give · To what, where: whip, king lessons, whip cracking
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 (boy), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 whip | det |
| 5 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lessons | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lessons | compound |
| 11 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 cracking | case |
| 13 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cracking | compound |
| 14 | cracking | cracking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | boy | the whip | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | boy not said here | the king lessons | whip cracking | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=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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