The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 95
Near the rock was a lion seeking to reach the mound, and each time he moved out darted a serpent from the rock to prevent him.
Who acts: lion · What happens: be, seek, reach, move out, dart, prevent · To what, where: lion, rock, mound, time, serpent
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 (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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 3 rock | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rock | det |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lion | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lion | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lion | det |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 lion | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 reach | mark |
| 9 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seeking | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mound | det |
| 11 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reach | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 darted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 darted | cc |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 darted | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 moved | nsubj |
| 17 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | acl:relcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 moved | advmod |
| 19 | darted | dart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lion | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 serpent | det |
| 21 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 darted | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 rock | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rock | det |
| 24 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 darted | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 prevent | mark |
| 26 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 darted | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 prevent | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a lion | the rock | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | gerund | a lion not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reach not said to happen | to-infinitive | a lion not said here | the mound | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mound=Theme | ||||
| 4 | move out | past | lion | each time not said here | out property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent time=Theme | |||
| 5 | dart | participle | a serpent | the rock | time | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme from rock=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | prevent | to-infinitive | lion | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme |
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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