The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 65

The Lion ate some of the porridge, but did not care for it, saying it was made from oats and oats were food for horses, not for lions.

Who acts: Lion, saying · What happens: eat, not care, say, make, be · To what, where: some, plate, oats, food · 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, saying), 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 Lion	det
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 ate	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 porridge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 porridge	det
7	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 some	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 care	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 care	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 care	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 care	advmod
12	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ate	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 care	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saying	punct
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 food	csubj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 made	aux:pass
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 saying	ccomp
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 oats	case
21	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 made	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 oats	cc
23	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 oats	conj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 food	cop
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 care	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 horses	case
27	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 food	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lions	punct
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 lions	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 lions	case
31	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 food	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the Lion	some			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
2	not care	past · do-support	the Lion not said here			for plate	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	past · passive		plate	oats and oats		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from oat=Material
5	is a	past	saying	food and lions		for horses	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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