The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 40
The great spider was lying asleep when the Lion found him, and it looked so ugly that its foe turned up his nose in disgust.
Who acts: great spider, Lion, bye, foe · What happens: lie, find, look, turn up · To what, where: spider, nose, disgust
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, Lion, bye, foe), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spider | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spider | amod |
| 3 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | aux |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lying | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 found | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lion | det |
| 9 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 ugly | advmod |
| 17 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 looked | xcomp |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 turned | mark |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 foe | nmod:poss |
| 20 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | nsubj |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ugly | advcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 turned | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 nose | nmod:poss |
| 24 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 disgust | case |
| 26 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | the great spider | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the Lion | spider | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look | past | bye | ugly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | turn up | past | bye's foe | Lion's nose | disgust | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nose=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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