Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 2

His master was a cruel man, and so unkind to him that at last An-dro-clus ran away.

Who acts: master, dro clus · What happens: be, run away · To what, where: cruel man, last

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Androclus and the Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, dro clus), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 master	nmod:poss
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 unkind	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 unkind	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 unkind	advmod
10	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 unkind	obl
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 him	nmod:unmarked
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ran	obl
16	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 clus	det
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 An	punct
18	dro	dro	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 clus	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 dro	punct
20	clus	clus	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ran	nsubj
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 unkind	parataxis
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 ran	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	slave's master	a cruel man					tree rules
2	run away	past	a dro clus			last		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory

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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