The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 43
This gave the Lion a hint of the best way to attack the creature, and as he knew it was easier to fight it asleep than awake, he gave a great spring and landed directly upon the monster’s back.
Who acts: This, Lion, best way · What happens: give, attack, know, be, fight, land · To what, where: hint, Lion, creature, body · 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 (This, Lion, best way), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lion | det |
| 4 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hint | det |
| 6 | hint | hint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hint | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 attack | mark |
| 12 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 creature | det |
| 14 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 attack | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knew | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 knew | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 easier | expl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 easier | cop |
| 22 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 knew | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fight | mark |
| 24 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 easier | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fight | obj |
| 26 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fight | xcomp |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 awake | case |
| 28 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 asleep | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gave | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 gave | nsubj |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 spring | det |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 spring | amod |
| 34 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 landed | cc |
| 36 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 gave | conj |
| 37 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 36 landed | advmod |
| 38 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 monster | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 monster | det |
| 40 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ’s | obl |
| 41 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 landed | conj |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 41 ’s | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | This | a hint of the best way | the Lion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient hint=Theme | |||
| 2 | attack | to-infinitive | This not said here | the creature | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Lion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fight | to-infinitive | body | asleep property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | give | past | Lion | spring | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | land | past | Lion not said here | directly property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | hint | the best way | nom hint «communication 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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