The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 69
Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.
Who acts: Lion, poor Winkies, Winkies · What happens: give, spring, be, run back · To what, where: great 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 (Lion, poor Winkies, Winkies), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lion | det |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 roar | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 roar | amod |
| 7 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sprang | cc |
| 9 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sprang | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 frightened | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 frightened | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Winkies | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Winkies | amod |
| 16 | Winkies | Winky | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 frightened | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 frightened | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 frightened | advmod |
| 19 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gave | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 ran | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 frightened | advcl |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 fast | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 fast | advmod |
| 25 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 ran | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 could | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 could | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 fast | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Lion | a great roar | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme | |||
| 2 | spring | past | the Lion not said here | towards Winkies = winky | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the poor Winkies | frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run back | past | Winkies = winky | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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