The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 159
The Lion at once passed through the door, and glancing around saw, to his surprise, that before the throne was a Ball of Fire, so fierce and glowing he could scarcely bear to gaze upon it.
Who acts: Lion, Ball · What happens: pass, glance around, see, be, bear, gaze · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Ball), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:862): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 passed | obl |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 11 | glancing | glance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 saw | advcl |
| 12 | around | around | ADV | _ | 11 glancing | advmod |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 surprise | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 surprise | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 17 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 throne | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 throne | mark |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 throne | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 throne | det |
| 22 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 throne | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Ball | det |
| 25 | Ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 throne | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Fire | case |
| 27 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ball | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fierce | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 fierce | advmod |
| 30 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Ball | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 glowing | cc |
| 32 | glowing | glowing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fierce | conj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 bear | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 bear | aux |
| 35 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 36 bear | advmod |
| 36 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 fierce | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 gaze | mark |
| 38 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 bear | xcomp |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 gaze | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the Lion | the door | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | glance around | gerund | around property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the Lion not said here | to Lion's surprise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a Ball of Fire | before the throne | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bear | could | Lion | scarcely property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | gaze | to-infinitive | Lion not said here | upon Ball | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | surprise | Lion | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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