The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 35
“When they scratched against the tin it made a cold shiver run down my back.
Who acts: claws, tin, cold shiver · What happens: scratch, make, run down · To what, where: tin, cold shiver, back
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 (claws, tin, cold shiver), 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 | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 scratched | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scratched | nsubj |
| 4 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | advcl |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 tin | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tin | det |
| 7 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scratched | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shiver | det |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shiver | amod |
| 12 | shiver | shiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 13 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 run | compound:prt |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 run | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch in a quote | past | claws = claw | the tin | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent against tin=Location | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | tin | a cold shiver | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run down in a quote | infinitive | a cold shiver not said here | my back | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Trajectory |
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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