The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 13
Just as he spoke there came from the forest a terrible roar, and the next moment a great Lion bounded into the road.
Who acts: Toto, next moment · What happens: speak, come, bound · To what, where: terrible roar, forest, road · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toto, next moment), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 roar | det |
| 11 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 roar | amod |
| 12 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bounded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bounded | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moment | det |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 moment | amod |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bounded | nsubj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Lion | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Lion | amod |
| 20 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 moment | appos |
| 21 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 road | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bounded | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Toto | there | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Toto not said here | a terrible roar | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | bound | past | the next moment | the road | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into road=Destination |
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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