The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 37
“Yonder, among the oak trees,” said the tiger, pointing with his forefoot.
Who acts: tiger · What happens: say, point · 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 (tiger), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yonder | punct |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trees | det |
| 6 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trees | compound |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 trees | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 trees | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tiger | det |
| 12 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pointing | punct |
| 14 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 forefoot | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 forefoot | nmod:poss |
| 17 | forefoot | forefoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pointing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the tiger | among the oak trees; yonder property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | point | gerund | the tiger not said here | with Lion's forefoot | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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