Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 10

At Sliav Saev he encountered the long-maned lions who lie in wait for the beasts of the world, growling woefully as they squat above their prey and crunch those terrified bones.

Who acts: head, long maned lions, lions · What happens: encounter, lie, growl, squat · To what, where: long maned lions, Sliav, wait, terrified bones, prey

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, long maned lions, lions), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 Sliav	case
2	Sliav	Sliav	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 encountered	obl
3	Saev	Saev	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sliav	flat
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 encountered	nsubj
5	encountered	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lions	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lions	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
9	maned	maned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lions	amod
10	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 encountered	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lie	nsubj
12	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lions	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 wait	case
14	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lie	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 beasts	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beasts	det
17	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lie	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beasts	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 growling	punct
22	growling	growl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 encountered	advcl
23	woefully	woefully	ADV	_	22 growling	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 squat	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 squat	nsubj
26	squat	squat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 growling	advcl
27	above	above	ADP	_	29 prey	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 prey	nmod:poss
29	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 squat	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 crunch	cc
31	crunch	crunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 prey	conj
32	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 bones	det
33	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bones	amod
34	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 squat	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 encountered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	encounter	past	head	the long maned lions	Sliav		vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus
2	lie	present	the long maned lions		wait	for the beasts of the world	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wait=Location
3	growl	gerund	head not said here			woefully property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	squat	present	lions = lion	that terrified bones	lions's prey and crunch		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme bone=Location

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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