Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 26
What if a child should be wronged?
What happens: wrong · To what, where: child
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 wronged | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wronged | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 wronged | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wronged | aux:pass |
| 7 | wronged | wrong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 What | advcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrong | should · passive | a child | 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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