The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 17
Again a head shot swiftly out, and the great Lion went rolling down the hill as if he had been struck by a cannon ball.
Who acts: great Lion · What happens: go, roll down, strike · To what, where: hill, Lion
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 (great Lion), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 6 out | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shot | det |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | compound |
| 4 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 out | nsubj |
| 5 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 6 out | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lion | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Lion | amod |
| 11 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 out | conj |
| 13 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 went | xcomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 hill | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hill | det |
| 16 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rolling | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 struck | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 struck | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 struck | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 struck | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 struck | aux:pass |
| 22 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 went | advcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 ball | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ball | det |
| 25 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ball | compound |
| 26 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 out | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the great Lion | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | roll down | gerund | the great Lion not said here | the hill | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Agent | ||||
| 3 | strike | past · perfect · passive | Lion | by a cannon ball | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument |
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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