The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 14

When the dog beheld the lion cub he rushed towards him, thinking to eat him; but the cub caught the dog by the neck, and shook him, and he was dead.

Who acts: dog, Manus, cub · What happens: behold, rush, think, eat, catch, shake · To what, where: lion cub, Manus, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, Manus, cub), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 beheld	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beheld	nsubj
4	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rushed	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cub	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cub	compound
7	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beheld	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rushed	nsubj
9	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	towards	towards	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rushed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thinking	punct
13	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 rushed	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 eat	mark
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thinking	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eat	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 caught	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 caught	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cub	det
20	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caught	nsubj
21	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rushed	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dog	det
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caught	obj
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 neck	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 neck	det
26	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caught	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shook	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shook	cc
29	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 caught	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shook	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dead	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 dead	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 dead	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 dead	cop
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 shook	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	behold	past	the dog	the lion cub		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cub=Stimulus
2	rush	past	Manus		towards Iarlaid	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination
3	think speech: other	gerund	Manus not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive		Manus		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	catch	past	the cub	the dog	by the neck	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
6	shake	past	the cub not said here	Manus		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	is	past	Manus		dead property	tree rules

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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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