Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 16

He jumped about like a dog, and licked the hands and feet of his new friend.

Who acts: lion · What happens: jump about, lick · To what, where: hands

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 jumped	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 dog	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 licked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 licked	cc
9	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hands	det
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 licked	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 feet	cc
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hands	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 friend	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friend	nmod:poss
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 friend	amod
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hands	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump about	past	lion					like a dog; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lick	past	lion not said here	the hands of lion's new friend and feet					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source

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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