Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 69
The boy ran forward with his whip, and after a great deal of shouting and scolding, the geese were driven back into the meadow.
Who acts: boy · What happens: run, drive back, deal · To what, where: geese, meadow, shouting
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 whip | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 whip | nmod:poss |
| 7 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 driven | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 driven | cc |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 deal | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 deal | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deal | amod |
| 13 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 driven | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 shouting | case |
| 15 | shouting | shouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deal | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 scolding | cc |
| 17 | scolding | scolding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shouting | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 deal | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 geese | det |
| 20 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 driven | aux:pass |
| 22 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 driven | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 meadow | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 meadow | det |
| 26 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 driven | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the boy | with boy's whip; forward property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with whip=Material | ||||
| 2 | drive back | past · passive | the geese | the meadow | after a great deal of shouting and scolding | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme into meadow=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | deal | shouting and scolding | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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