Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 101

He expected that the man would laugh at him; but al-though a jailer, he had a kind heart.

Who acts: jailer, man, al · What happens: expect, laugh, have · To what, where: kind heart

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jailer, man, al), 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 expected	nsubj
2	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 laugh	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laugh	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 laugh	aux
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 expected	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laugh	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
12	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 jailer	punct
14	though	though	ADP	_	16 jailer	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 jailer	det
16	jailer	jailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 al	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 al	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 expected	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 heart	det
21	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 heart	amod
22	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	expect	past	jailer			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	would	the man		at jailer	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	al	a kind heart		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

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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