The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 4

Then they told him of the field mice, and how they had generously saved him from death; and the Cowardly Lion laughed, and said:

Who acts: flowers, Cowardly Lion · What happens: tell, save, laugh, say · To what, where: Lion, flowers, death · 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 (flowers, Cowardly 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 mice	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mice	det
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mice	compound
8	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saved	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saved	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 saved	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saved	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saved	aux
14	generously	generously	ADV	_	15 saved	advmod
15	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saved	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 death	case
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saved	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 laughed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 laughed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Lion	det
22	Cowardly	Cowardly	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Lion	compound
23	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 laughed	nsubj
24	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	flowers = flower		Lion		then	of the field mice	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	save	past · perfect · passive		flowers = flower		death		generously property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Theme
3	laugh	past	the Cowardly Lion						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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