The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 93
“The Lion was a very good comrade for one so cowardly.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: be · To what, where: good comrade
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 comrade | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lion | det |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 comrade | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 comrade | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 comrade | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 comrade | amod |
| 8 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 comrade | nmod |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 cowardly | advmod |
| 12 | cowardly | cowardly | ADV | _ | 10 one | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 comrade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the Lion | a good comrade | for one | tree rules |
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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