Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 27

He looked up, and saw that there was no pity in the thou-sands of faces around him.

Who acts: al, pity · What happens: look up, see, be · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (al, pity), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saw	cc
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 was	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	ccomp
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 pity	det
11	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 sands	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sands	det
14	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 sands	nmod:poss
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 thou	punct
16	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pity	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 faces	case
18	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sands	nmod
19	around	around	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 faces	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	look up	past	al		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	al not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	past	no pity in thou's sands of faces around al	there	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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