The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 38
“Is he made of tin, or stuffed?” asked the Lion.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: make, stuff, ask · To what, where: dog · 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), 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 | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tin | case |
| 6 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stuffed | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 stuffed | cc |
| 9 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 made | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 stuffed | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Lion | det |
| 14 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present · passive | dog | of tin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | stuff in a quote | participle | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Lion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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