The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 42

He’s a curious animal and seems remarkably small, now that I look at him.

Who acts: I · What happens: seem, look

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 (I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ’s	nsubj
2	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 animal	det
4	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ’s	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 seems	cc
7	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ’s	conj
8	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	_	9 small	advmod
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seems	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 look	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 look	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 look	nsubj
14	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ’s	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ’s	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present						small property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	look	present	I				now	at dog	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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