Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 77

"You are a very kind man, and I think you might be a good king; but if you were to try all your life, you would never be a good gooseherd."

Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, think, try, not be · To what, where: kind man, good king, life, good gooseherd · 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, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 kind	advmod
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 think	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 think	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 think	nsubj
11	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl:relcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 king	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 king	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 king	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 king	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 king	amod
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 think	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 gooseherd	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 gooseherd	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 try	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 try	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 try	aux
23	to	to	PART	_	24 try	mark
24	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 gooseherd	advcl
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 life	det:predet
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 life	nmod:poss
27	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 try	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 try	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 gooseherd	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 gooseherd	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 gooseherd	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 gooseherd	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 gooseherd	det
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 gooseherd	amod
35	gooseherd	gooseherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	You	a kind man but a good gooseherd	tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	present	I	a kind man but a good gooseherd not said here	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme
3	is a in a quote	might	you	a good king	tree rules
4	try a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	your life	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
5	not is a in a quote	would	you	a good gooseherd	tree rules

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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