Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 7
Androclus was very much afraid, for he felt sure that the beast would kill him.
Who acts: Androclus, beast · What happens: be, feel, kill · To what, where: Androclus
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, beast), 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 | Androclus | Androclus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 felt | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | conj |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 felt | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beast | det |
| 13 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | aux |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Androclus | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Androclus | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | kill | would | the beast | Androclus | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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