The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 28
The man had hurt his leg, and was lying on the couch in a corner.
What happens: hurt, lie · To what, where: man, couch
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 leg | nmod:poss |
| 6 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurt | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lying | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lying | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lying | aux |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 hurt | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 couch | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 couch | det |
| 13 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lying | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 corner | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 corner | det |
| 16 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lying | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past · perfect · passive | the man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer leg=Result | |||||
| 2 | lie | past · progressive | the couch | in a corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location |
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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