Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 36

So he stood up before them, and, with his arm around the lion's neck, told how he and the beast had lived together in the cave.

Who acts: Androclus, arm · What happens: stand up, tell, live together · To what, where: cave · 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 (Androclus, arm), 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	_	3 stood	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 stood	compound:prt
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 arm	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 arm	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arm	nmod:poss
12	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	nsubj
13	around	around	ADP	_	17 neck	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lion	det
15	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 neck	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 lion	case
17	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arm	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 arm	punct
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 lived	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lived	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 beast	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beast	det
24	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 he	conj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lived	aux
26	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 told	ccomp
27	together	together	ADV	_	26 lived	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 cave	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cave	det
30	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lived	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	Androclus		before people		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	Androclus's arm around the lion's neck				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	live together	past · perfect	Androclus	the cave		together property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

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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