The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 16
The Lion became quite angry at the laughter caused by the Scarecrow’s mishap, and giving a loud roar that echoed like thunder, he dashed up the hill.
Who acts: Lion, loud roar · What happens: become, cause, give, echo, dash up · To what, where: laughter, loud roar, hill
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, loud roar), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 laughter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 laughter | det |
| 8 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | obl |
| 9 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 laughter | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 mishap | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Scarecrow | det |
| 12 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mishap | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Scarecrow | case |
| 14 | mishap | mishap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caused | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 giving | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 giving | cc |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 became | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 roar | det |
| 19 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 roar | amod |
| 20 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 echoed | nsubj |
| 22 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 roar | acl:relcl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 thunder | case |
| 24 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 echoed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dashed | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 dashed | nsubj |
| 27 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 dashed | compound:prt |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hill | det |
| 30 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dashed | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Lion | angry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cause | participle | the laughter not said here | by the Scarecrow's mishap | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | the Lion not said here | a loud roar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme | ||||
| 4 | echo | past | a loud roar | like thunder | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dash up | past | Lion | the hill | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient |
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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