The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 53

Then they awoke the lion, who sprang against the door of the cage with might and main, so that it fell in splinters on the ground, and the beasts were free.

Who acts: eyes, lion, beasts · What happens: awake, spring, fall, be · To what, where: lion, door, splinters

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, lion, beasts), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 awoke	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lion	det
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 awoke	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sprang	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sprang	nsubj
8	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lion	acl:relcl
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sprang	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cage	det
14	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 door	nmod
15	with	with	SCONJ	_	18 main	mark
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 main	aux
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 main	cc
18	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cage	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 fell	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 fell	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fell	nsubj
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 awoke	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 splinters	case
25	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fell	obl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fell	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 free	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 free	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 beasts	det
32	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 free	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 free	cop
34	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 awoke	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	eyes = eye	the lion		then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lion=Theme
2	spring	past	the lion		the door of the cage			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against door=Trajectory
3	fall	past	lion		splinters		on the ground	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in splinter=Location
4	is	past	the beasts				free property	tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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