Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 62
What was worse, they had gotten into a garden, and were feeding on the tender veg-e-ta-bles.
Who acts: worse · What happens: be, get, feed · To what, where: garden
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 (worse), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 worse | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worse | cop |
| 3 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 gotten | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 worse | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gotten | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gotten | aux |
| 7 | gotten | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gotten | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 feeding | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 feeding | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 feeding | aux |
| 14 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 gotten | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 bles | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bles | det |
| 17 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bles | amod |
| 18 | veg | veg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 e | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 veg | punct |
| 20 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ta | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 e | punct |
| 22 | ta | ta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bles | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ta | punct |
| 24 | bles | ble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 feeding | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bad property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | worse | a garden | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination | ||||
| 3 | feed | past · progressive | worse not said here | on the tender ta bles | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on ble=Patient |
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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