The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 15
But, to the Lion’s surprise, he could make no impression on the tin, although the Woodman fell over in the road and lay still.
Who acts: surprise, Woodman, Lion · What happens: make, fall over, lay, surprise · To what, where: impression, tin, road
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 (surprise, Woodman, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 surprise | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 surprise | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Lion | det |
| 5 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Lion | case |
| 7 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 surprise | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 impression | det |
| 13 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 tin | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tin | det |
| 16 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 18 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 21 fell | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Woodman | det |
| 20 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | advcl |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 21 fell | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 road | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 road | det |
| 25 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lay | cc |
| 27 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 fell | conj |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 lay | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | the Lion's surprise | no impression | the tin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product | |||
| 2 | fall over | past | the Woodman | the road | over property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in road=Location | |||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | the Woodman not said here | still | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | surprise | the Lion | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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