The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 17

“I have lost much flesh since I lived there, and now I am anxious for a chance to show the other beasts how courageous I have grown.”

Who acts: Lion · What happens: lose, live, be, show, grow · To what, where: much flesh, other beasts

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), 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	_	4 lost	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flesh	amod
6	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 lived	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	advcl
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 lived	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 anxious	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 anxious	cc
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 anxious	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 anxious	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 anxious	cop
16	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lost	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 chance	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 chance	det
19	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 anxious	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 show	mark
21	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 chance	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beasts	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beasts	amod
24	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 show	obj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 courageous	advmod
26	courageous	courageous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beasts	amod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 grown	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 grown	aux
29	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 beasts	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	present · perfect	the Lion = lion	much flesh				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Eventuality
2	live in a quote	past	the Lion = lion		there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	the Lion = lion			now	for a chance; anxious property	tree rules
4	show in a quote	to-infinitive	the Lion = lion not said here	the other beasts				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beast=Recipient
5	grow in a quote	present · perfect	the Lion = lion	the other beasts not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beast=Theme

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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