Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 32
The people, who had ex-pect-ed to see the man killed by the lion, were filled with wonder.
Who acts: people · What happens: ex-pect-, see, kill, fill · To what, where: man, people
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 (people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ex-pect-ed | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 ex-pect-ed | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ex-pect-ed | aux |
| 6 | ex-pect-ed | ex-pect- | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 people | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ex-pect-ed | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 man | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 lion | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lion | det |
| 14 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 people | punct |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 filled | aux:pass |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 wonder | case |
| 19 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ex-pect- | past · perfect | the people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the people not said here | the man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | kill | participle | the man not said here | by the lion | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | fill | past · passive | the people | with wonder | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with wonder=Instrument |
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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