The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 10
See how soft the dried leaves are under your feet and how rich and green the moss is that clings to these old trees.
Who acts: you, dried leaves, moss · What happens: see, dry, be · To what, where: soft feet, clings
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dried leaves, moss), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 soft | advmod |
| 3 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feet | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leaves | det |
| 5 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 leaves | amod |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 feet | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 feet | cop |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 See | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rich | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 rich | advmod |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feet | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 green | cc |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rich | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moss | det |
| 17 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rich | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 clings | cop |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 clings | mark |
| 20 | clings | cling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 See | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 trees | case |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 trees | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 trees | amod |
| 24 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 clings | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | the dried leaves | your soft feet | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the moss | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | clings | to this old trees | tree rules |
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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