The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 39
He bade his comrades good-bye and marched proudly away to do battle with the enemy.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: bade, march away, battle · To what, where: comrades
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 4 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bade | obj |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bye | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 7 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bade | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 marched | cc |
| 9 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bade | conj |
| 10 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 9 marched | advmod |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 marched | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 battle | mark |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 battle | aux |
| 14 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 marched | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 enemy | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 enemy | det |
| 17 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 battle | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Lion | Lion's comrades | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | march away | past | Lion not said here | away, proudly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | battle | to-infinitive · do-support | Lion not said here | with the enemy | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with enemy=Co-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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