The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 29

Not one of us is safe while this fierce creature is alive, and we had called a meeting to decide how to take care of ourselves when you came among us.”

Who acts: one, fierce creature, we, you · What happens: be, call, decide, take, come · To what, where: meeting, care · 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 (one, fierce creature, we, you), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 safe	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 us	case
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	cop
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 alive	mark
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 creature	det
9	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 creature	amod
10	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 alive	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 alive	cop
12	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 safe	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 called	cc
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 called	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 called	aux
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 safe	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 meeting	det
19	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 decide	mark
21	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 meeting	acl
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 take	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 take	mark
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 decide	ccomp
25	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 ourselves	case
27	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 take	obl
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 came	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 take	advcl
31	among	among	ADP	_	32 us	case
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 came	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 safe	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 safe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	one of us		safe property	tree rules
2	is	present	this fierce creature		alive property	tree rules
3	call	past · perfect	we	a meeting		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	decide	to-infinitive	we not said here	a meeting not said here		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		care	of ourselves	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of ourselves=Initial_Location
6	come	past	you		among us	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among we=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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