The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 19
“I didn’t bite him,” said the Lion, as he rubbed his nose with his paw where Dorothy had hit it.
Who acts: Lion, Dorothy · What happens: not bite, say, rub, hit · To what, where: dog, nose · 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 (Lion, Dorothy), 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 | _ | 5 bite | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bite | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bite | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 bite | advmod |
| 5 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bite | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bite | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bite | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rubbed | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 rubbed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rubbed | nsubj |
| 15 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 nose | nmod:poss |
| 17 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rubbed | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 paw | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 paw | nmod:poss |
| 20 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rubbed | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 hit | advmod |
| 22 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 hit | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hit | aux |
| 24 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 paw | acl:relcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hit | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bite in a quote | past · do-support | the Lion = lion | dog | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rub | past | Lion | dog's nose | with dog's paw | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent nose=Destination with paw=Theme | |||
| 4 | hit | past · perfect | Dorothy | nose | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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