The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 160
His first thought was that Oz had by accident caught on fire and was burning up; but when he tried to go nearer, the heat was so intense that it singed his whiskers, and he crept back tremblingly to a spot nearer the door.
Who acts: Oz, Lion, heat · What happens: be, catch, burn up, try, go, singe · To what, where: first thought, accident, fire, whiskers, spot
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 (Oz, Lion, heat), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 thought | amod |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 6 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | acl:relcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 accident | case |
| 9 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 accident | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 burning | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 burning | aux |
| 15 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 caught | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 burning | compound:prt |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 tried | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 tried | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 tried | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tried | nsubj |
| 21 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 tried | xcomp |
| 24 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 intense | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 heat | det |
| 27 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 intense | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 intense | cop |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 intense | advmod |
| 30 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 go | parataxis |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 singed | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 singed | nsubj |
| 33 | singed | singe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 intense | advcl |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 35 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 singed | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 crept | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 crept | cc |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 crept | nsubj |
| 39 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 crept | advmod |
| 41 | tremblingly | tremblingly | ADV | _ | 44 spot | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 spot | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 spot | det |
| 44 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 crept | obl |
| 45 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 44 spot | amod |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 door | det |
| 47 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 nearer | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Oz | Lion's first thought not said here | by accident; have property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch | participle | accident not said here | fire | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | burn up | past · progressive | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | try | past | Lion | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lion not said here | near property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the heat | intense property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | singe | past | heat | Lion's whiskers | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent whisker=Patient | ||||
| 8 | creep back | past | Lion | a spot | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination | ||||
| 9 | think | Lion | nom thought «cognition 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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