The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 58
The Lion hesitated no longer, but drank till the dish was empty.
Who acts: Lion, dish · What happens: hesitate, drink, be
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 (Lion, dish), 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 hesitated | nsubj |
| 3 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 longer | advmod |
| 5 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 hesitated | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drank | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 drank | cc |
| 8 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hesitated | conj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 empty | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dish | det |
| 11 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 empty | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 empty | cop |
| 13 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 drank | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hesitated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | past | the Lion | long property | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | the Lion not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the dish | empty property | tree rules |
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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