The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 164
And the Lion answered, “I am a Cowardly Lion, afraid of everything.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: Cowardly Lion · 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lion | det |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lion | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lion | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Lion | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Lion | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Lion | det |
| 10 | Cowardly | cowardly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Lion | amod |
| 11 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 afraid | punct |
| 13 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Lion | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 everything | case |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 afraid | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the Lion = lion | a Cowardly Lion | 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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