The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 36
“Where is this great spider of yours now?” asked the Lion.
Who acts: great spider · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: great spider, 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 (great 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 spider | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 spider | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spider | cop |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 spider | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spider | amod |
| 6 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 yours | case |
| 8 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spider | nmod |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 spider | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 spider | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 spider | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Lion | det |
| 14 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this great spider | now | of the Lion = lion | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | this great spider | the Lion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient |
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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