The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 22
And when the lion saw that he gave a loud roar, and burst through the stones, and sprang upon the youths and slew them.
Who acts: lion · What happens: see, give, burst, spring, slay · To what, where: loud roar, stones, youths
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lion | det |
| 4 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 gave | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 roar | det |
| 10 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 roar | amod |
| 11 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 burst | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 burst | cc |
| 14 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 stones | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stones | det |
| 17 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 burst | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sprang | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sprang | cc |
| 20 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 burst | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 youths | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 youths | det |
| 23 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sprang | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 slew | cc |
| 25 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sprang | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 slew | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the lion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | give | past | lion | a loud roar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burst | past | the stones | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through stone=Location | |||||
| 4 | spring | past | the youths | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon youth=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | slay | past | youths = youth | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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