Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 74
"Very well," said Maximilian, with a smile; "here is another gold piece, and now let us be friends."
Who acts: Maximilian, friends · What happens: say, be, let · To what, where: gold piece, us · 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 (Maximilian, friends), 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 well | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Maximilian | Maximilian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smile | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 smile | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 smile | det |
| 11 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Maximilian | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 here | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 here | punct |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 piece | advmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 piece | cop |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 piece | det |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 piece | compound |
| 18 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 let | advmod |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 25 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 be | nsubj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Maximilian | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | another gold piece | here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | now | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | infinitive | friends | vn exist-47.1 «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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