The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 42

It had a great mouth, with a row of sharp teeth a foot long; but its head was joined to the pudgy body by a neck as slender as a wasp’s waist.

Who acts: body, neck · What happens: have, join · To what, where: great mouth, head

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, neck), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mouth	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mouth	amod
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 row	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 row	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 row	det
9	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 teeth	case
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teeth	amod
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 row	nmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 foot	det
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 long	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teeth	amod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 joined	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 joined	cc
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 joined	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 joined	aux:pass
21	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 body	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 body	det
24	pudgy	pudgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 body	amod
25	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 joined	obl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 neck	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 neck	det
28	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 joined	obl
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 slender	advmod
30	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 neck	amod
31	as	as	ADP	_	35 waist	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 wasp	det
33	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 waist	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 wasp	case
35	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 slender	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	body	a great mouth				with a row of sharp teeth	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
2	join	past · passive	a neck	body's head				to the pudgy body	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to body=Co-Patient

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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