The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 15
As for the Lion, he sniffed the fresh air with delight and whisked his tail from side to side in pure joy at being in the country again, while Toto ran around them and chased the moths and butterflies, barking merrily all the time.
Who acts: Lion, Toto · What happens: sniff, whisk, be, run, chase, bark · To what, where: fresh air, tail, country, moths
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Lion | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lion | det |
| 4 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sniffed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lion | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sniffed | nsubj |
| 7 | sniffed | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 9 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 air | amod |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sniffed | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 delight | case |
| 12 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sniffed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 whisked | cc |
| 14 | whisked | whisk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sniffed | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tail | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whisked | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whisked | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whisked | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 joy | case |
| 22 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 joy | amod |
| 23 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whisked | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 country | cop |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 country | det |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whisked | obl |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 country | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ran | punct |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 ran | mark |
| 32 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 ran | nsubj |
| 33 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sniffed | parataxis |
| 34 | around | around | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 ran | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 chased | cc |
| 37 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 ran | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 moths | det |
| 39 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 chased | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 butterflies | cc |
| 41 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 moths | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 barking | punct |
| 43 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 chased | advcl |
| 44 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 43 barking | advmod |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 time | det:predet |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 time | det |
| 47 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 barking | obl:unmarked |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sniffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sniff | past | Lion | the fresh air | as the Lion; with delight | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | |||
| 2 | whisk | past | Lion not said here | Lion's tail | to side; in pure joy; to side | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent tail=Patient to side=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | is | gerund | the country | again | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Toto | around friends = friend | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | chase | past | Toto not said here | the moths and butterflies | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moth=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bark | gerund | Toto not said here | time | merrily property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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