The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 41
Its legs were quite as long as the tiger had said, and its body covered with coarse black hair.
Who acts: body · What happens: say, cover · To what, where: legs · 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 (body), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 legs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 said | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 tiger | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tiger | det |
| 9 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 covered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 covered | cc |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 covered | nsubj |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hair | case |
| 18 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hair | amod |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hair | amod |
| 20 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 covered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | bye's legs | as the tiger; long property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | bye's body | with coarse black hair | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hair=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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