Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 9

This done, they were riding away well pleased, when up sprang a fierce lion, and roared out, ‘Whoever has stolen my roses shall be eaten up alive!’

Who acts: flowers · What happens: do, ride, spring, roar out, steal, eat up · To what, where: This, fierce lion, Whoever

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily 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 (flowers), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 done	nsubj:pass
2	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 riding	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 riding	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 riding	aux
6	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 done	advcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 riding	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 pleased	advmod
9	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 away	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sprang	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 sprang	advmod
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 when	compound:prt
13	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 riding	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lion	det
15	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lion	amod
16	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sprang	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 roared	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 roared	cc
19	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sprang	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 roared	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stolen	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 stolen	punct
23	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 stolen	nsubj:pass
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 stolen	aux
25	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 eaten	advcl
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 roses	nmod:poss
27	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 stolen	obj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 eaten	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 eaten	aux:pass
30	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 roared	advcl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 eaten	compound:prt
32	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eaten	xcomp
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 done	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	participle · passive		This		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	ride	past · progressive	flowers = flower		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	spring	past		a fierce lion		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location lion=Theme
4	roar out	past				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	steal	present · perfect · passive		Whoever		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary rose=Theme
6	eat up	shall · passive			alive property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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