The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 35
“We will do that gladly,” returned the tiger; and all the other beasts roared with a mighty roar: “We will!”
Who acts: We, other beasts · What happens: do, return, roar · To what, where: that, tiger
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 (We, other beasts), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tiger | det |
| 11 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 roared | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 roared | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 beasts | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beasts | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beasts | amod |
| 17 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 roared | nsubj |
| 18 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 roar | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 roar | det |
| 21 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 roar | amod |
| 22 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 roared | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 will | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 will | punct |
| 25 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 will | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | advcl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 will | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | We | that | gladly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | return | past | We not said here | the tiger | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roar | past | all other beasts | with a mighty roar | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with roar=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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