The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 127

But as she opened the gate the Lion gave a loud roar and bounded at her so fiercely that the Witch was afraid, and ran out and shut the gate again.

Who acts: Dorothy, Lion, Witch · What happens: open, give, bound, be, run out, shut · To what, where: gate, loud roar

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, Lion, Witch), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 opened	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gave	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lion	det
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 roar	det
11	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 roar	amod
12	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bounded	cc
14	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gave	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bounded	obl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 fiercely	advmod
18	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	14 bounded	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 afraid	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Witch	det
21	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 afraid	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 afraid	cop
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fiercely	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ran	cc
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gave	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 ran	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shut	cc
29	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ran	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gate	det
31	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shut	obj
32	again	again	ADV	_	29 shut	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	Dorothy	the gate			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme
2	give	past	the Lion	a loud roar			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme
3	bound	past	the Lion not said here			at Dorothy; fiercely property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Trajectory
4	is	past	the Witch			afraid property	tree rules
5	run out	past	the Lion not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shut	infinitive	the Lion not said here	the gate	again		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gate=Patient

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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