Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 20
Schacabac had not expected to be treated so kindly.
Who acts: Schacabac · What happens: not expect, treat · To what, where: Schacabac
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Barmecide Feast.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schacabac), 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 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 expected | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 expected | advmod |
| 4 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 treated | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 treated | aux:pass |
| 7 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 expected | xcomp |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 kindly | advmod |
| 9 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 7 treated | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | past · perfect · passive | Schacabac | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | treat not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Schacabac not said here | kindly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient» |
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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