Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 58

With a great cac-kling and hissing they went, half flying, half running, across the meadow.

Who acts: geese · What happens: hiss, go, fly, run

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), 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	With	with	ADP	_	6 kling	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kling	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kling	amod
4	cac	cac	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kling	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 cac	punct
6	kling	kling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hissing	cc
8	hissing	hiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 kling	conj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flying	punct
12	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 flying	advmod
13	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 went	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 running	punct
15	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 running	advmod
16	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 flying	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 meadow	punct
18	across	across	ADP	_	20 meadow	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 meadow	det
20	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 running	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hiss	gerund	geese = goose not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	geese = goose	with a great cac kling	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly	gerund	geese = goose not said here	half property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run	gerund	geese = goose not said here	half property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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