The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 1

The Cowardly Lion was much pleased to hear that the Wicked Witch had been melted by a bucket of water, and Dorothy at once unlocked the gate of his prison and set him free.

Who acts: Cowardly Lion, Dorothy · What happens: be, hear, melt, unlock, set · To what, where: Wicked Witch, gate, Dorothy

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cowardly Lion, Dorothy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lion	det
2	Cowardly	cowardly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Lion	amod
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pleased	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 pleased	advmod
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pleased	xcomp
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 melted	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Witch	det
11	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Witch	amod
12	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 melted	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 melted	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 melted	aux:pass
15	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hear	advcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 bucket	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bucket	det
18	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 melted	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 water	case
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bucket	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 unlocked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 unlocked	cc
23	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 unlocked	nsubj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 unlocked	obl
26	unlocked	unlock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 gate	det
28	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 unlocked	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 prison	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 prison	nmod:poss
31	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gate	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 set	cc
33	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 unlocked	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 set	obj
35	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 set	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Cowardly Lion		pleased property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	the Cowardly Lion not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	melt	past · perfect · passive		the Wicked Witch	by a bucket of water	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
4	unlock	past	Dorothy	the gate of Dorothy's prison		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient
5	set	past	Dorothy not said here	Dorothy	free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result

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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