Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 4
So one day he crept into a cave and lay down, and soon he was fast asleep.
Who acts: clus · What happens: creep, lay down, be · To what, where: cave
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 crept | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crept | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 crept | nsubj |
| 5 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crept | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lay | cc |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 crept | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asleep | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asleep | cc |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 asleep | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asleep | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 asleep | cop |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 asleep | advmod |
| 18 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 crept | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | clus | a cave | day | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cave=Destination | |||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | clus not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | clus | asleep, fast, soon property | tree rules |
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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