The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 19
There were tigers and elephants and bears and wolves and foxes and all the others in the natural history, and for a moment Dorothy was afraid.
Who acts: tigers, Dorothy · What happens: be
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 (tigers, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 elephants | cc |
| 5 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tigers | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bears | cc |
| 7 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tigers | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wolves | cc |
| 9 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tigers | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 foxes | cc |
| 11 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tigers | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 others | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 others | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 others | det |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tigers | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 history | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 history | det |
| 18 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 history | amod |
| 19 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 others | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 afraid | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 afraid | cc |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 moment | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 moment | det |
| 24 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 afraid | obl |
| 25 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 afraid | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 afraid | cop |
| 27 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 were | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | tigers and elephants and bears and wolves and foxes and all others in the natural history | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Dorothy | moment | afraid property | 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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