Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 71

He had been put into prison wrong-ful-ly, and it seemed to him as though there was no one in the world who cared for him.

Who acts: it, one · What happens: put, seem, be, care · To what, where: gentleman, prison

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 (it, one), 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	4 put	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 put	aux:pass
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 prison	case
6	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ly	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 wrong	punct
9	ful	ful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ly	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ful	punct
11	ly	ly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prison	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seemed	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seemed	obl
18	as	as	ADV	_	15 seemed	advmod
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 was	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seemed	advcl
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 was	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 one	nmod
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 cared	nsubj
28	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	acl:relcl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cared	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past · perfect · passive		gentleman		prison and wrong ful ly		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	seem	past	it		gentleman			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	no one in the world			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	care	past	no one in the world				for gentleman	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for he=Theme

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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