The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 94
Pushing aside the bushes he beheld a lion standing on a great mound, and by it a rock.
Who acts: reward, lion · What happens: push, behold, stand · To what, where: bushes, lion, great mound
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reward, lion), 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 | Pushing | push | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 beheld | csubj |
| 2 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 1 Pushing | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bushes | det |
| 4 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pushing | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beheld | nsubj |
| 6 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lion | det |
| 8 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beheld | obj |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 lion | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 mound | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mound | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mound | amod |
| 13 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rock | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rock | cc |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rock | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rock | det |
| 19 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beheld | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | gerund | the bushes | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Theme | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | reward | a lion | a rock obl | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a lion not said here | a great mound | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mound=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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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