The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 43

No one would think of biting such a little thing, except a coward like me,” continued the Lion sadly.

Who acts: one, coward · What happens: think, bite, continue · To what, where: little thing, Lion · 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 (one, coward), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 biting	mark
6	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 think	advcl
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 thing	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 biting	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 coward	punct
12	except	except	ADP	_	14 coward	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 coward	det
14	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 continued	nsubj
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 coward	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 me	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 coward	punct
19	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Lion	det
21	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 continued	obj
22	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	19 continued	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	no one			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	bite	gerund	no one not said here	such little thing		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
3	continue in a quote	past	a coward like me	the Lion	sadly property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lion=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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