Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 52
Now you see how it is done," he said, as he handed it back. "
Who acts: you, boy · What happens: see, do, say, hand back · To what, where: whip · 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 (you, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 done | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 done | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 handed | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 handed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 handed | nsubj |
| 15 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 handed | obj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 handed | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | present · passive | whip | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hand back in a quote | past | boy | whip | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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