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title: Androclus lifted the paw from the ground, and saw that it was a long… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Androclus lifted the paw from the ground, and saw that it was a long, sharp thorn which hurt the lion so much. Who acts: Androclus, paw, long sharp thorn. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Androclus and the Lion., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 13

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Androclus lifted the paw from the ground, and saw that it was a long, sharp thorn which hurt the lion so much.

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**Who acts:** Androclus, paw, long sharp thorn · **What happens:** lift, see, be, hurt · **To what, where:** paw, ground, long sharp thorn, lion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Androclus and the Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Androclus, paw, long sharp thorn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:30:13
# text = Androclus lifted the paw from the ground, and saw that it was a long, sharp thorn which hurt the lion so much.
1	Androclus	Androclus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | Androclus | the paw |  | the ground |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme from ground=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | Androclus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | paw | a long sharp thorn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hurt** | past | a long sharp thorn | the lion |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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