The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 17

But the lion seemed in such pain that she was sorry for him, and drew nearer and nearer till she saw he had a large thorn in one foot.

Who acts: lion, groan · What happens: seem, be, draw, see, have · To what, where: large thorn, one foot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, groan), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 seemed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pain	case
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pain	amod
7	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 sorry	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sorry	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sorry	cop
11	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seemed	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sorry	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drew	cc
16	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
17	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 drew	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 nearer	cc
19	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 nearer	conj
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 saw	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 nearer	advcl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thorn	det
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thorn	amod
27	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 foot	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 foot	nummod
30	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the lion			in such pain	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in pain=Attribute
2	is	past	Lion			for groan; sorry property	tree rules
3	draw	past	the lion not said here			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past	Lion				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	have	past	groan	a large thorn	one foot		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=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 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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