The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 17
“For my part, I am content in knowing I am as brave as any beast that ever lived, if not braver,” said the Lion modestly.
Who acts: Lion, content, beast · What happens: be, know, live, say · To what, where: content · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, content, beast), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 content | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 part | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 part | nmod:poss |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 content | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 content | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 content | cop |
| 8 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 knowing | mark |
| 10 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 content | acl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 brave | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 brave | cop |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 brave | advmod |
| 14 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knowing | ccomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 beast | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 beast | det |
| 17 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brave | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 lived | nsubj |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 lived | advmod |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beast | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 braver | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 braver | mark |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 braver | advmod |
| 24 | braver | brave | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 knowing | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 content | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 content | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Lion | det |
| 29 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 said | nsubj |
| 30 | modestly | modestly | ADV | _ | 27 said | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the Lion = lion | content | for my part | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know in a quote | gerund | content not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the Lion = lion | as any beast; brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | past | any beast | ever | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | modestly property | 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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