The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 28

It has eight of these long legs, and as the monster crawls through the forest he seizes an animal with a leg and drags it to his mouth, where he eats it as a spider does a fly.

Who acts: enemy, monster, trouble, spider · What happens: have, crawl, seize, drag, eat, do · To what, where: eight, forest, animal, enemy, mouth

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, monster, trouble, spider), 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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 has	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 legs	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 legs	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 legs	amod
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eight	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seizes	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seizes	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 crawls	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monster	det
12	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crawls	nsubj
13	crawls	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 seizes	advcl
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crawls	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seizes	nsubj
18	seizes	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 animal	det
20	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seizes	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 leg	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 leg	det
23	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seizes	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drags	cc
25	drags	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drags	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 mouth	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mouth	nmod:poss
29	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drags	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 eats	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 eats	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 eats	nsubj
33	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 drags	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 eats	obj
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 does	mark
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 spider	det
37	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 does	nsubj
38	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 eats	advcl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 fly	det
40	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 does	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	enemy	eight of this long legs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eight=Patient
2	crawl	present	the monster		the forest		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
3	seize	present	trouble	a animal		with a leg	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
4	drag	present	enemy not said here	enemy	trouble's mouth		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mouth=Destination
5	eat	present	trouble	enemy			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	do	present	a spider				tree rules
7	fly	infinitive	a spider not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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