Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 56

Maximilian sat down on a stone, and laughed at the thought of being a goose-herd.

Who acts: Maximilian · What happens: sit down, laugh, be · To what, where: stone, thought

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 (Maximilian), 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	Maximilian	Maximilian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 stone	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laughed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laughed	cc
9	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 thought	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thought	det
12	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laughed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	18 herd	case
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 herd	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 herd	det
16	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 herd	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 goose	punct
18	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Maximilian	a stone		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location
2	laugh	past	Maximilian not said here	the thought		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	gerund			of a goose herd	tree rules

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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