The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 27
It is a most tremendous monster, like a great spider, with a body as big as an elephant and legs as long as a tree trunk.
Who acts: enemy · What happens: be · To what, where: tremendous monster
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 monster | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 monster | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 monster | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 tremendous | advmod |
| 5 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 monster | amod |
| 6 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spider | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 spider | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 spider | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spider | amod |
| 11 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 monster | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 body | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 body | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 body | det |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 monster | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 big | advmod |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 body | amod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 elephant | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 elephant | det |
| 20 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 big | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 legs | cc |
| 22 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 elephant | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 elephant | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 trunk | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 trunk | det |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 trunk | compound |
| 28 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 long | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 monster | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | enemy | a tremendous monster and a body | 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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