The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 45
Jumping down, he watched it until the long legs stopped wiggling, when he knew it was quite dead.
Who acts: Lion, long legs, body · What happens: jump down, watch, stop, wiggle, know, be · To what, where: 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 (Lion, long legs, 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 | Jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 watched | advcl |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Jumping | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jumping | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 watched | nsubj |
| 5 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 watched | obj |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 stopped | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 legs | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 legs | amod |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watched | advcl |
| 12 | wiggling | wiggle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stopped | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 knew | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watched | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dead | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dead | cop |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 dead | advmod |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knew | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump down | gerund | Lion not said here | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | Lion | body | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | the long legs | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | wiggle | gerund | the long legs not said here | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | know | past | Lion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | body | dead property | tree rules |
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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