The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 34

“If I put an end to your enemy, will you bow down to me and obey me as King of the Forest?” inquired the Lion.

Who acts: Lion, you · What happens: put, bow down, obey, inquire · To what, where: end, Lion · 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 (Lion, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 bow	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 put	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bow	advcl
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 enemy	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 enemy	nmod:poss
9	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bow	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 bow	nsubj
13	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 inquired	ccomp
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 bow	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 bow	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 obey	cc
18	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 bow	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 obey	obj
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 King	case
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 obey	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Forest	det
24	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 King	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 bow	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 bow	punct
27	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Lion	det
29	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 inquired	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	put a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the Lion = lion	a end		to your enemy	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal
2	bow down in a quote	future	you		the Lion = lion		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to i=Pivot
3	obey in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the Lion = lion		as King of the Forest	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	inquire speech: other	past	the Lion				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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