Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 13
Androclus lifted the paw from the ground, and saw that it was a long, sharp thorn which hurt the lion so much.
Who acts: Androclus, paw, long sharp thorn · What happens: lift, see, be, hurt · To what, where: paw, ground, long sharp thorn, lion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Androclus, paw, long sharp thorn), 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 | Androclus | Androclus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 paw | det |
| 4 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 thorn | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thorn | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thorn | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thorn | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thorn | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 long | punct |
| 17 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thorn | amod |
| 18 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 hurt | nsubj |
| 20 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thorn | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lion | det |
| 22 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hurt | obj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 hurt | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Androclus | the paw | the ground | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme from ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | past | Androclus not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | paw | a long sharp thorn | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hurt | past | a long sharp thorn | the lion | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=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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