Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 22
So a fierce lion was shut up for a while without food, and a time was set for the fight.
What happens: shut up, set · To what, where: fierce lion, time
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 shut | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lion | det |
| 3 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lion | amod |
| 4 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shut | aux:pass |
| 6 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 shut | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 while | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 while | det |
| 10 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shut | obl |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 food | case |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shut | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | aux:pass |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 shut | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 fight | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fight | det |
| 21 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | past · passive | a fierce lion | while | without food | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | set | past · passive | a time | for the fight | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for fight=Beneficiary |
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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