Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 26
He was almost dead with fear, for the roars of the lion could al-read-y be heard.
Who acts: Androclus, lion · What happens: be, read, hear, roar · To what, where: al
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, lion), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dead | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dead | cop |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 dead | advmod |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 fear | case |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dead | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 roars | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 roars | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roars | det |
| 10 | roars | roar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 heard | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lion | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lion | det |
| 13 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roars | nmod |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux |
| 15 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 al | punct |
| 17 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 y | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 read | punct |
| 19 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 al | flat |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 heard | aux:pass |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dead | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Androclus | with fear; almost, dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read | participle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hear | could · passive | al | for the roars of the lion | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | roar | the lion | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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