The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 20
But the Lion explained that the animals were holding a meeting, and he judged by their snarling and growling that they were in great trouble.
Who acts: Lion, animals, snarling · What happens: explain, hold, judge, growl, be · To what, where: meeting, great trouble · 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 (Lion, animals, snarling), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 explained | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lion | det |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 explained | nsubj |
| 4 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 holding | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animals | det |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 holding | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 holding | aux |
| 9 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 explained | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 meeting | det |
| 11 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 judged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 judged | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 judged | nsubj |
| 15 | judged | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 explained | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 snarling | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 snarling | nmod:poss |
| 18 | snarling | snarling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 judged | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 growling | cc |
| 20 | growling | growl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 snarling | acl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 trouble | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 trouble | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 trouble | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 trouble | case |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 trouble | amod |
| 26 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 growling | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hold | past · progressive | the animals | a meeting | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Theme | ||||
| 3 | judge | past | Lion | by animals's snarling | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | growl | gerund | animals's snarling not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | animals = animal | great trouble | 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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