The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 4
But now and then there came a deep growl from some wild animal hidden among the trees.
What happens: come, hide · To what, where: deep growl, wild animal, trees
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: 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 | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 then | cc |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 came | expl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 growl | det |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 growl | amod |
| 9 | growl | growl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 animal | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 animal | det |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 animal | amod |
| 13 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 growl | nmod |
| 14 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 animal | acl |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hidden | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a deep growl | there | now; then | from some wild animal | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location growl=Theme | ||
| 2 | hide | participle | some wild animal not said here | the trees | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among tree=Location |
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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