The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 59

Now when the youngest prince was thrown down into the lions’ den he found the fox sitting there, and the lions, instead of tearing him to pieces, showed him the greatest friendliness.

Who acts: prince, fox · What happens: throw down, find, sit, tear, show · To what, where: youngest prince, den, fox, prince, greatest friendliness

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, fox), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 thrown	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 thrown	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 prince	amod
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thrown	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thrown	aux:pass
7	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 thrown	compound:prt
9	into	into	ADP	_	13 den	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lions	det
11	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 den	nmod:poss
12	’	's	PART	_	11 lions	case
13	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thrown	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 found	nsubj
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thrown	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fox	det
17	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obj
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 fox	acl
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 sitting	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lions	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lions	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lions	det
23	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thrown	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tearing	punct
25	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 tearing	mark
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 instead	fixed
27	tearing	tear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 thrown	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tearing	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 pieces	case
30	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tearing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 showed	punct
32	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thrown	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 showed	iobj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 friendliness	det
35	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 friendliness	amod
36	friendliness	friendliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 showed	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thrown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	past · passive		the youngest prince			now	into the lions's den result; the lions obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into den=Result
2	find	past	prince	the fox					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Topic
3	sit	gerund	the fox not said here			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tear	gerund		prince				to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result
5	show	past		the greatest friendliness	prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient friendliness=Topic

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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