The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 92
“Yes, and a quick way out of our troubles,” replied the Lion.
Who acts: Lion, our · What happens: reply, trouble
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, our), 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 | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 way | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 way | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 troubles | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 troubles | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 troubles | nmod:poss |
| 11 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 way | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Lion | det |
| 16 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | trouble in a quote | our | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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