Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 129

Alas! how could he hope that it might be done?

Who acts: Charney · What happens: hope, do · To what, where: treasure · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Charney), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 hope	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 hope	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hope	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hope	nsubj
6	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 done	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 done	nsubj:pass
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 done	aux:pass
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hope	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hope	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	could	Charney						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	do	might · passive		treasure					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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