The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 44
“What makes you a coward?” asked Dorothy, looking at the great beast in wonder, for he was as big as a small horse.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: make, ask, look, be · To what, where: Dorothy · 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 | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 coward | det |
| 6 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | conj |
| 10 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 beast | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beast | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beast | amod |
| 16 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looking | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 wonder | case |
| 18 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beast | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 big | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 big | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 big | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 big | cop |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 big | advmod |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 looking | conj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 horse | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 horse | det |
| 27 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 horse | amod |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 big | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | Dorothy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Dorothy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | at the great beast in wonder | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beast=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Lion | as a small horse; big property | 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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