The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 36

What is that little animal you are so tender of?”

Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: little animal

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 (you), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 animal	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 animal	cop
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 animal	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tender	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tender	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 tender	advmod
9	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animal	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 tender	case
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 tender	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 tender	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		that little animal					tree rules
2	is	present	you					of tender	tree rules

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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