The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 142

“But how about my courage?” asked the Lion anxiously.

Who acts: Lion · What happens: ask

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion), 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	_	9 asked	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 asked	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 courage	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 courage	nmod:poss
6	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 courage	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 courage	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lion	det
11	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
12	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	9 asked	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Lion					about my courage; anxiously property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about courage=Topic

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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