The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 22
The biggest of the tigers came up to the Lion and bowed, saying:
Who acts: biggest · What happens: come up, bow, say · 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 (biggest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 biggest | det |
| 2 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tigers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tigers | det |
| 5 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 biggest | obl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Lion | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 10 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bowed | cc |
| 12 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 bowed | advcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the biggest | to the Lion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lion=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bow | past | the biggest not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the biggest not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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