The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 30

The Prince in great astonishment leapt to his feet, and had just time to draw his sword before he found himself face to face with a large green lion which had been hotly pursuing the poor little gazelle.

Who acts: Prince, large green lion · What happens: have, draw, find, pursue · To what, where: sword, Prince, poor little gazelle

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, large green 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 leapt	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 leapt	case
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leapt	amod
5	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leapt	compound
6	leapt	leapt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 feet	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feet	nmod:poss
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leapt	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 leapt	conj
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 time	advmod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 draw	mark
16	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sword	nmod:poss
18	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 draw	obj
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 found	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 draw	advcl
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 found	obj
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 face	case
25	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 face	nmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	30 lion	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lion	det
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lion	amod
29	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lion	amod
30	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obl
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 pursuing	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 pursuing	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 pursuing	aux
34	hotly	hotly	ADV	_	35 pursuing	advmod
35	pursuing	pursue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 lion	acl:relcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 gazelle	det
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 gazelle	amod
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 gazelle	amod
39	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pursuing	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 leapt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past			time		tree rules
2	draw	to-infinitive		Prince's sword			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
3	find	past	Prince	Prince		with a large green lion	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme face=Attribute
4	pursue	past · perfect · progressive	a large green lion	the poor little gazelle		hotly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gazelle=Theme

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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