Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 42

Others cried, "Let the lion go free too!

Who acts: Others, lion · What happens: cry, let, go · To what, where: lion · 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 (Others, 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	Others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Let	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Let	punct
5	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cried	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 Let	xcomp
9	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	xcomp
10	too	too	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Others			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		the lion		tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	the lion not said here		free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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