The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 28

Then the Lion began to swim with all his might toward the shore.

Who acts: Lion · What happens: begin, swim

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lion	det
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 swim	mark
6	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	13 shore	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 shore	det:predet
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shore	nmod:poss
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 shore	aux
11	toward	toward	ADP	_	13 shore	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shore	det
13	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swim	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Lion				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	swim	to-infinitive	the Lion not said here					with use's shore	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with shore=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 Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (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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