The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 25
He will be more afraid of you than you are of him.”
Who acts: Lion, you · What happens: be
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, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 afraid | amod |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 afraid | obl |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 are | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 are | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 are | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | Lion | of you; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | does | present | you | of Lion | vn exist-47.1 «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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