The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 13
“I suppose there are,” returned the Lion, “but I do not see any of them about.”
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: suppose, be, return, not see · To what, where: Lion, any · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Dorothy), 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 | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 are | expl |
| 5 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suppose | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 10 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 see | advmod |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 returned | conj |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 any | nmod |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | present | Dorothy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | return | past | the Lion | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | Dorothy | any | about property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus |
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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