The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 80

Then the Lion gathered his legs under him and jumped on the wall; but just as he jumped, he upset a china church with his tail and smashed it all to pieces.

Who acts: Lion · What happens: gather, jump, upset, smash · To what, where: legs, wall, china church, church, pieces

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gathered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lion	det
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gathered	nsubj
4	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gathered	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gathered	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 jumped	cc
10	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 wall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wall	det
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jumped	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 upset	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 upset	cc
16	just	just	ADV	_	19 jumped	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 jumped	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 jumped	nsubj
19	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 upset	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 jumped	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 upset	nsubj
22	upset	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gathered	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 church	det
24	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 church	compound
25	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 upset	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 tail	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 tail	nmod:poss
28	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 upset	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 smashed	cc
30	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 upset	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 smashed	obj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 it	det
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 pieces	case
34	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 smashed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	the Lion	Lion's legs		then	under Kansas	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
2	jump	past	the Lion not said here		the wall			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Trajectory
3	jump	past	Lion					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	upset	past	Lion	a china church			with Lion's tail	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus church=Experiencer
5	smash	past	Lion not said here	church	pieces			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to piece=Destination

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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