The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 2
“I ran as fast as I could,” he said, sitting down and yawning, “but the flowers were too strong for me.
Who acts: Lion, flowers · What happens: run, say, sit down, yawn, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, flowers), 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 | _ | 3 ran | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 could | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 could | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fast | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 could | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sitting | punct |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 said | xcomp |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 sitting | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 yawning | cc |
| 17 | yawning | yawn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 sitting | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 strong | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 strong | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 strong | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flowers | det |
| 22 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 strong | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 strong | cop |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 strong | advmod |
| 25 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 yawning | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 strong | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | past | Lion | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sit down | gerund | Lion not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | yawn | gerund | Lion not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | the flowers | for Lion; strong property | 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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