Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 60
He tried to crack the whip, but it was of no use.
Who acts: king, whip · What happens: try, crack, be · 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 (king, whip), 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 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 crack | mark |
| 4 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 whip | det |
| 6 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crack | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 use | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 use | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 use | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 use | cop |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 use | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 use | det |
| 13 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | king | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | crack not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | the whip | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whip=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | whip | of no use | 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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