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title: For a long time, the lion brought food to Androclus every day; and t… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: For a long time, the lion brought food to Androclus every day; and the two became such good friends, that Androclus found his new life a very happy one. Who acts: lion, two, Androclus. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Androclus and the Lion., with its dependency tree and
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 18

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For a long time, the lion brought food to Androclus every day; and the two became such good friends, that Androclus found his new life a very happy one.

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**Who acts:** lion, two, Androclus · **What happens:** bring, become, find · **To what, where:** food, Androclus, such good friends, new life

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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 (lion, two, Androclus), 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:pg18442:30:18
# text = For a long time, the lion brought food to Androclus every day; and the two became such good friends, that Androclus found his new life a very happy one.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Androclus	Androclus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	Androclus	Androclus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the lion | food | Androclus |  | day; time |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to androclus=Destination |
| 2 | **become** | past | the two | such good friends |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | past | Androclus | lion's new life |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent life=Theme one=Attribute |

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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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