The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 44
Then, with one blow of his heavy paw, all armed with sharp claws, he knocked the spider’s head from its body.
Who acts: Lion, heavy paw · What happens: knock, blow · To what, where: 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 (Lion, heavy paw), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 knocked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 blow | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 blow | nummod |
| 5 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knocked | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 paw | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 paw | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 paw | amod |
| 9 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blow | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 armed | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 armed | det |
| 12 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blow | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 claws | case |
| 14 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 claws | amod |
| 15 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 armed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blow | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knocked | nsubj |
| 18 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spider | det |
| 20 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 spider | case |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knocked | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 body | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 body | nmod:poss |
| 25 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knocked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | Lion | the spider's head | then | with one blow of Lion's heavy paw; from head's body | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient from body=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | blow | Lion's heavy paw | nom blow «act 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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