The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 15
Dorothy and Toto and the Lion lay down to sleep, while the Woodman and the Scarecrow kept watch over them as usual.
Who acts: Dorothy, Woodman · What happens: lie down, sleep, keep · To what, where: watch
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, Woodman), 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 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Toto | cc |
| 3 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dorothy | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Lion | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lion | det |
| 6 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dorothy | conj |
| 7 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 lay | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sleep | mark |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lay | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kept | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 kept | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Woodman | det |
| 14 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Scarecrow | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Scarecrow | det |
| 17 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Woodman | conj |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lay | conj |
| 19 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kept | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 usual | case |
| 23 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kept | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | Dorothy and Toto and the Lion | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | Dorothy and Toto and the Lion not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | past | the Woodman and the Scarecrow | watch | over trees = tree; as usual | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over they=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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