The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 131
And the Lion would answer, “No. If you come in this yard, I will bite you.”
Who acts: Lion, you · What happens: answer, come, bite · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lion, you), 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 | _ | 5 answer | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lion | det |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | aux |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bite | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bite | nsubj |
| 8 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 7 “ | flat |
| 9 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 bite | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 yard | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 yard | det |
| 14 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 bite | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 bite | aux |
| 18 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answer | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 bite | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | would | the Lion | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | in this yard | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in yard=Location | ||||
| 3 | bite in a quote | future | you | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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