Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 66
"Never mind," said the king, "I will help you get them again."
Who acts: you, king, boy · What happens: not mind, say, help, get · To what, where: you, geese · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, king, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 help | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mind | advcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | xcomp |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 get | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | help in a quote | future | boy | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | geese = goose | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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