The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 39
The Lion and the Woodman both shook their heads, for they did not know.
Who acts: Lion, trees · What happens: shake, not know · To what, where: heads
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, trees), 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 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Woodman | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Woodman | det |
| 5 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lion | conj |
| 6 | both | both | ADV | _ | 7 shook | advmod |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heads | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shook | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shook | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the Lion and the Woodman | trees's heads | both property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | trees = tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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