The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 33
And, besides, they were none of them nearly so large and brave as you.”
Who acts: monster · What happens: be · To what, where: none
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 (monster), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 large | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 none | punct |
| 3 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 7 none | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 besides | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 none | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 none | cop |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 large | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 none | nmod |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 large | advmod |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 large | advmod |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brave | cc |
| 14 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 large | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 brave | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 large | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 large | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | monster | none | of animals = animal | 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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