The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 5
“This forest is perfectly delightful,” declared the Lion, looking around him with joy.
Who acts: forest, delightful · What happens: be, declare, look · To what, where: Lion · 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 (forest, delightful), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 delightful | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 forest | det |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delightful | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 delightful | cop |
| 5 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 6 delightful | advmod |
| 6 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 declared | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 delightful | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 delightful | punct |
| 9 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lion | det |
| 11 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 declared | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looking | punct |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 declared | advcl |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looking | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 joy | case |
| 17 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | this forest | delightful, perfectly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | delightful | the Lion | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | delightful not said here | around Lion; with joy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme |
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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