The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 52
Placing this before the Cowardly Lion, who sniffed at it as if he did not like it, the Wizard said:
Who acts: Wizard, Cowardly Lion, Lion · What happens: place, sniff, not like, say · To what, where: this, dish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wizard, Cowardly Lion, 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 | Placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 said | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Placing | obj |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 Lion | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lion | det |
| 5 | Cowardly | Cowardly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lion | compound |
| 6 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Placing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sniffed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sniffed | nsubj |
| 9 | sniffed | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Lion | acl:relcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sniffed | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 like | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 like | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 like | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sniffed | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 like | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Placing | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Wizard | det |
| 21 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | gerund | the Wizard not said here | this | before the Cowardly Lion | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme before lion=Destination | |||
| 2 | sniff | past | the Cowardly Lion | at dish | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | Lion | dish | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Wizard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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