Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 10
The lion stood quite still, and rubbed his head against the man's shoulder.
Who acts: lion · What happens: stand, rub · To what, where: head, shoulder
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Androclus and the Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 still | advmod |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rubbed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rubbed | cc |
| 8 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rubbed | obj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 shoulder | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 man | case |
| 15 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rubbed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the lion | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rub | past | lion's head | the man's shoulder | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme against shoulder=Destination |
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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