Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 55
He did his best to learn his lesson; and soon the boy again started off on his errand.
Who acts: king, boy · What happens: do, learn, start off · To what, where: best, lesson, errand
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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 best | nmod:poss |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 learn | mark |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lesson | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learn | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 started | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 started | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 started | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 started | nsubj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 started | advmod |
| 15 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 started | compound:prt |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 errand | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 errand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 started | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | king | king's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | king not said here | king's lesson | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic | ||||
| 3 | start off | past | the boy | king's errand | again | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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