The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 2
The Lion also curled himself up to sleep and Toto lay beside him.
Who acts: Lion, Toto · What happens: curl up, sleep, lie · To what, where: Lion
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 curled | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 curled | advmod |
| 4 | curled | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 curled | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 curled | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sleep | mark |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 curled | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lay | cc |
| 10 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 curled | conj |
| 12 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lay | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 curled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl up | past | the Lion | Lion | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lie | past | Toto | beside Lion | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |
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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