Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 7

Once when Schac-a-bac had not had anything to eat for a long time, he thought that he would go and ask the Bar-me-cide to help him.

Who acts: Schac · What happens: not have, eat, think, go, ask, help · To what, where: anything, Bar cide, Schac · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Schac), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 had	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 had	advmod
3	Schac	Schac	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bac	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bac	det
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 a	punct
7	bac	bac	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Schac	appos
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 had	advmod
10	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 thought	advcl
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 anything	acl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 time	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 go	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 thought	ccomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ask	cc
26	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cide	det
28	Bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cide	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 me	punct
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 Bar	conj
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Bar	punct
32	cide	cide	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ask	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 help	mark
34	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ask	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 help	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past · perfect	Schac	anything			once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive	Schac not said here	anything not said here		time		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	Schac					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	go	would	Schac					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Schac not said here	the Bar cide				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cide=Recipient
6	help	to-infinitive	Schac not said here		Schac			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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