Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 72

I was very silly to leave the geese with you.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: geese

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 silly	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 silly	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 silly	advmod
4	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 silly	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 geese	det
8	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leave	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 leave	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 silly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I					silly property	tree rules
2	leave	to-infinitive	I not said here		the geese			with you	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent goose=Recipient with you=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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