Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 8
Soon, however, he saw that the lion was not angry, but that he limped as though his foot hurt him.
Who acts: beast, lion, foot · What happens: see, not be, limp, hurt · To what, where: beast
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 (beast, lion, foot), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 angry | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lion | det |
| 9 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 angry | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 angry | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 angry | advmod |
| 12 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 limped | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 limped | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 limped | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 limped | nsubj |
| 17 | limped | limp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 limped | advmod |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 hurt | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 foot | nmod:poss |
| 21 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hurt | nsubj |
| 22 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 limped | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hurt | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | beast | however, soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | the lion | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | limp | past | beast | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hurt | past | beast's foot | beast | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
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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