The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 154

“If he is a Beast when I go to see him, I shall roar my loudest, and so frighten him that he will grant all I ask.

Who acts: Lion · What happens: be, go, see, roar, frighten, grant · To what, where: Beast, Lion, loudest, all

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Beast	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 Beast	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Beast	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Beast	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Beast	det
6	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 roar	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 go	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 roar	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 roar	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 roar	aux
16	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 loudest	nmod:poss
18	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 roar	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 frighten	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 frighten	cc
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 frighten	advmod
22	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 roar	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 frighten	obj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 grant	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 grant	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 grant	aux
27	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 frighten	advcl
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 grant	obj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 ask	nsubj
30	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 all	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 roar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Lion	a Beast	tree rules
2	go in a quote	present	the Lion = lion		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	to-infinitive	the Lion = lion not said here	Lion	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	roar in a quote	shall	the Lion = lion	my loudest	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location loud=Theme
5	frighten in a quote	infinitive	the Lion = lion not said here	Lion	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6	grant in a quote	future	Lion	all	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent all=Theme
7	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	the Lion = lion		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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