Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 25
The door opened, and poor Androclus was brought in.
Who acts: door · What happens: open, bring in · To what, where: poor Androclus
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 (door), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Androclus | amod |
| 7 | Androclus | Androclus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux:pass |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 opened | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 brought | compound:prt |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring in | past · passive | poor Androclus | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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