Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 17

Androclus was not at all afraid after this; and when night came, he and the lion lay down and slept side by side.

Who acts: Androclus, night · What happens: not be, come, lie down, sleep · To what, where: all, side

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, night), 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	6 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 afraid	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 afraid	obl
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 afraid	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lay	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lay	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lay	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lion	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lion	det
18	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 he	conj
19	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	parataxis
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 lay	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 slept	cc
22	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lay	conj
23	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slept	obj
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 side	case
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slept	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Androclus		all	after this	afraid property	tree rules
2	come	past	night					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie down	past	Androclus				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sleep	past	Androclus not said here	side			by side	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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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