The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 48

Then the beasts bowed down to the Lion as their King, and he promised to come back and rule over them as soon as Dorothy was safely on her way to Kansas.

Who acts: beasts, beast, Dorothy · What happens: bow down, promise, come back, be · To what, where: Kansas, way

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 (beasts, beast, Dorothy), 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	4 bowed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beasts	det
3	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bowed	nsubj
4	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 bowed	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Lion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lion	det
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bowed	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 King	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 King	nmod:poss
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bowed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 promised	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 promised	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 promised	nsubj
15	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bowed	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 come	mark
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 promised	xcomp
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rule	cc
20	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	conj
21	over	over	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 come	obl
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 soon	advmod
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 promised	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 way	mark
26	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 way	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 way	cop
28	safely	safely	ADV	_	31 way	advmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 way	nmod:poss
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 soon	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 Kansas	case
33	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 way	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow down	past	the beasts			then	to the Lion; as claws's King; down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to lion=Pivot
2	promise speech: promise	past	beast				soon property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come back not said to happen	to-infinitive	beast not said here				over claws = claw	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over they=Initial_Location
4	is	past	Dorothy	Kansas	Dorothy's way		safely 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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