The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 26
“We are all threatened,” answered the tiger, “by a fierce enemy which has lately come into this forest.
Who acts: tiger, fierce enemy · What happens: threaten, answer, come · To what, where: We, forest · 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 (tiger, fierce enemy), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 threatened | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 threatened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 threatened | aux:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 threatened | advmod |
| 5 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 answered | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 threatened | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 threatened | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tiger | det |
| 10 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 enemy | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 enemy | punct |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 enemy | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 enemy | det |
| 15 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 enemy | amod |
| 16 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tiger | appos |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 come | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 19 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 enemy | acl:relcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 forest | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 forest | det |
| 23 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten in a quote | present · passive | We | all property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the tiger | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · perfect | a fierce enemy | this forest | lately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_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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