Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 3

He hid himself in a wild wood for many days; but there was no food to be found, and he grew so weak and sick that he thought he should die.

Who acts: clus · What happens: hide, find, be, think, die · To what, where: clus, wild wood · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (clus), 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	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 hid	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 wood	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wood	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wood	amod
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hid	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 was	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 grew	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 food	det
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 found	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 found	aux:pass
19	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 food	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grew	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grew	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 grew	nsubj
23	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hid	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 weak	advmod
25	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grew	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sick	cc
27	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 weak	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 thought	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 weak	advcl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 die	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 die	aux
33	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 thought	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	clus	clus	a wild wood	day		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in wood=Location
2	find	to-infinitive · passive	clus not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
3	is	past	clus				grow, weak property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	clus					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	die	should	clus					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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