The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 144
There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger.
Who acts: living thing, confidence · What happens: be, not be, face · To what, where: danger
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 (living thing, confidence), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | compound |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 afraid | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 afraid | advmod |
| 9 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 faces | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 faces | nsubj |
| 12 | faces | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | ccomp |
| 13 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 faces | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no living thing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | no living thing | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | face | present | confidence | danger | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Destination |
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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