The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 11
Surely no wild beast could wish a pleasanter home.”
Who acts: wild beast · What happens: wish · To what, where: pleasanter home
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 (wild beast), 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 6 wish | advmod |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 beast | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beast | amod |
| 4 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wish | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wish | aux |
| 6 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 home | det |
| 8 | pleasanter | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 home | amod |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wish | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wish | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | could | no wild beast | a pleasanter home | surely property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot home=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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