Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 19
One day some soldiers who were passing through the wood found Androclus in the cave.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: pass, find · To what, where: wood, Androclus, cave
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 (soldiers), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 soldiers | det |
| 4 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 found | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 passing | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passing | aux |
| 7 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 soldiers | acl:relcl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passing | obl |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Androclus | Androclus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cave | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cave | det |
| 15 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · progressive | some soldiers | the wood | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | some soldiers | Androclus | the cave | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent androclus=Topic |
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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