Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 18

For a long time, the lion brought food to Androclus every day; and the two became such good friends, that Androclus found his new life a very happy one.

Who acts: lion, two, Androclus · What happens: bring, become, find · To what, where: food, Androclus, such good friends, new life

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, two, Androclus), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	nsubj
8	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Androclus	case
11	Androclus	Androclus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obl:unmarked
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 became	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 two	det
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	parataxis
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 friends	amod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 friends	amod
21	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 became	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 found	mark
24	Androclus	Androclus	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 became	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 life	nmod:poss
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 life	amod
28	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 one	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 happy	advmod
31	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 one	amod
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	bring	past	the lion	food	Androclus	day; time	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to androclus=Destination
2	become	past	the two	such good friends			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	find	past	Androclus	lion's new life			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent life=Theme one=Attribute

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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