The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 4
The Lion declared he was afraid of nothing on earth, and would gladly face an army or a dozen of the fierce Kalidahs.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: declare, be, face · To what, where: army
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 declared | nsubj |
| 3 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | cop |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 declared | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 nothing | case |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 afraid | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 earth | case |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nothing | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 face | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 face | cc |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 face | aux |
| 14 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 15 face | advmod |
| 15 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 declared | conj |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 army | det |
| 17 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 face | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 dozen | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dozen | det |
| 20 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 army | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Kalidahs | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Kalidahs | det |
| 23 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Kalidahs | amod |
| 24 | Kalidahs | Kalidahs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 dozen | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the Lion | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Lion | of nothing; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | face | would | the Lion not said here | a army | gladly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme army=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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