The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 182
“I will go with you; but I’m too much of a coward to kill the Witch,” said the Lion.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: go, be, kill, say · To what, where: much, Witch · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’m | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 ’m | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ’m | nsubj |
| 10 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ’m | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 coward | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 coward | det |
| 15 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 much | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 kill | mark |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 coward | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Witch | det |
| 19 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kill | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’m | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Lion | det |
| 24 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | the Lion = lion | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | the Lion = lion | much of a coward | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | the Lion = lion not said here | the Witch | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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