Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 44
And so Androclus was set free, and the lion was given to him for his own.
What happens: set, give · To what, where: Androclus, lion
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 set | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 3 | Androclus | Androclus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux:pass |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 set | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 given | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lion | det |
| 10 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux:pass |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 set | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 given | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 own | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 own | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 given | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | Androclus | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | the lion | Androclus | for Androclus's own | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient for own=Asset |
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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