The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 83
So the Lion aroused himself and bounded forward as fast as he could go.
Who acts: Lion, mistress · What happens: arouse, bound, go · To what, where: mistress
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, mistress), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 aroused | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lion | det |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 aroused | nsubj |
| 4 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 aroused | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bounded | cc |
| 7 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 aroused | conj |
| 8 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 7 bounded | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 fast | advmod |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 bounded | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fast | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 aroused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arouse | past | the Lion | mistress | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | bound | past | the Lion not said here | fast, forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | could | mistress | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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