The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 50
The Lion thought it might be as well to frighten the Wizard, so he gave a large, loud roar, which was so fierce and dreadful that Toto jumped away from him in alarm and tipped over the screen that stood in a corner.
Who acts: Lion, stillness, large loud roar, Toto, screen · What happens: think, be, frighten, give, jump away, tip · To what, where: Wizard, large loud roar, alarm, screen, corner · Speech: someone speaks here
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, stillness, large loud roar, Toto), 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 | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 well | nsubj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 well | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 well | cop |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 frighten | mark |
| 10 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 well | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wizard | det |
| 12 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 frighten | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 gave | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 roar | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 roar | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 large | punct |
| 20 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 roar | amod |
| 21 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fierce | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 fierce | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fierce | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 fierce | advmod |
| 26 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 roar | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dreadful | cc |
| 28 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fierce | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 jumped | mark |
| 30 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 jumped | nsubj |
| 31 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gave | advcl |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 jumped | advmod |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 jumped | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 alarm | case |
| 36 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 jumped | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 tipped | cc |
| 38 | tipped | tip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 jumped | conj |
| 39 | over | over | ADP | _ | 41 screen | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 screen | det |
| 41 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 tipped | obl |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 stood | nsubj |
| 43 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 screen | acl:relcl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 corner | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 corner | det |
| 46 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 stood | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Lion | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | might | stillness | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | frighten | to-infinitive | stillness not said here | the Wizard | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wizard=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Lion | a large loud roar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | a large loud roar | fierce property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | a large loud roar not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | jump away | past | Toto | alarm | from Lion; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory | |||
| 8 | tip | past | Toto not said here | the screen | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over screen=Destination | ||||
| 9 | stand | past | the screen | a corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
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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