The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 21
As he spoke several of the beasts caught sight of him, and at once the great assemblage hushed as if by magic.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: speak, catch, hush, sight · To what, where: several, sight, great assemblage, Lion · 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), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 caught | advcl |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spoke | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 beasts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beasts | det |
| 7 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 several | obl |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sight | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 assemblage | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 assemblage | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 once | case |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 assemblage | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 assemblage | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 assemblage | amod |
| 18 | assemblage | assemblage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obl |
| 19 | hushed | hush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 assemblage | acl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 hushed | advmod |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 as | fixed |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 magic | case |
| 23 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hushed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Lion | several | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | sight of Lion | the great assemblage obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hush | participle | the great assemblage not said here | by magic | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sight | Lion | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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