Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 71
"A king, indeed!" said the boy. "
Who acts: king · What happens: say · 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 (king), 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 king | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 indeed | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 king | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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