Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 9
Then Androclus grew so bold that he took hold of the lion's lame paw to see what was the matter.
Who acts: Androclus · What happens: grow, take, see, be, hold · To what, where: hold, matter, lame paw · 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 (Androclus), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | Androclus | Androclus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 bold | advmod |
| 5 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 took | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bold | advcl |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 paw | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lion | det |
| 12 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 paw | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 lion | case |
| 14 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 paw | amod |
| 15 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 took | advcl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 matter | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 matter | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 matter | det |
| 21 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Androclus | then | bold property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | Androclus | hold of the lion's lame paw | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Androclus not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hold | the lion's lame paw | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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