The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 16
“City life does not agree with me at all,” remarked the Lion, as they walked along at a brisk pace.
Who acts: City life, Lion, moths · What happens: not agree, remark, walk · To what, where: all · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (City life, Lion, moths), 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 | _ | 6 agree | punct |
| 2 | City | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 life | compound |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agree | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 agree | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 agree | advmod |
| 6 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 remarked | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 agree | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 agree | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 agree | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 agree | punct |
| 13 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Lion | det |
| 15 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 remarked | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walked | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 walked | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 walked | nsubj |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 remarked | conj |
| 20 | along | along | ADV | _ | 19 walked | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 pace | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pace | det |
| 23 | brisk | brisk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pace | amod |
| 24 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not agree speech: agree in a quote | present · do-support | City life | all | with the Lion = lion | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | moths = moth | at a brisk pace; along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Trajectory |
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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