The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 14

When at last they arrived the lion was sitting up at the entrance, looking very pale and thin.

Who acts: Beasts, lion · What happens: arrive, sit up, look · To what, where: last, entrance

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beasts, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 arrived	mark
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 arrived	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 arrived	nsubj
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 arrived	ccomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 sitting	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 entrance	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 entrance	det
13	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looking	punct
15	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sitting	conj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 pale	advmod
17	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 looking	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thin	cc
19	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pale	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	Beasts = beast	last		tree rules
2	sit up	past · progressive	the lion	the entrance		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at entrance=Location
3	look	gerund	the lion not said here		pale property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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