Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 63
A few minutes after-ward, the goose boy came back with the book.
Who acts: goose boy · What happens: come back
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 (goose 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 minutes | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minutes | amod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 after | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 ward | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 after | punct |
| 6 | ward | ward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ward | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 9 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boy | compound |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 book | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 book | det |
| 15 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the goose boy | after ward | with the book | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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