The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 34

“Why, he would eat us all up.”

Who acts: Lion · What happens: eat up · To what, where: us

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. 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	_	6 eat	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 eat	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 eat	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 us	nmod:unmarked
9	up	up	ADP	_	6 eat	compound:prt
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up in a quote	would	Lion	us					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient

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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