Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 53
If the geese try to run away, crack it loud."
Who acts: geese, you · What happens: try, run away, crack · To what, where: whip
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 (geese, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 try | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 geese | det |
| 3 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 try | nsubj |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 crack | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 run | mark |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | xcomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 run | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 9 | crack | crack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 crack | obj |
| 11 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 9 crack | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 crack | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 crack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try a condition, not said to happen | present | the geese | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | run away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the geese not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crack | imperative | you not said here | whip | loud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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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