The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 38
“Take good care of these friends of mine,” said the Lion, “and I will go at once to fight the monster.”
Who acts: Lion, friends · What happens: take, say, go, fight, care · To what, where: good care, monster · 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, friends), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 care | amod |
| 4 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 friends | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 friends | det |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 care | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mine | case |
| 9 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friends | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 12 | said | say | 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 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 go | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fight | mark |
| 24 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 monster | det |
| 26 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fight | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | good care of this friends of mine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | the Lion = lion | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | |||||
| 4 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | the Lion = lion not said here | the monster | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | care in a quote | this friends of mine | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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