The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 47
All the other animals in the forest naturally expect me to be brave, for the Lion is everywhere thought to be the King of Beasts.
Who acts: other animals, me · What happens: expect, be, think · To what, where: me, Lion, King · 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 (other animals, me), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 animals | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 animals | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animals | amod |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 expect | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 animals | nmod |
| 8 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 9 expect | advmod |
| 9 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 expect | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 brave | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 brave | cop |
| 13 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 expect | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 thought | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lion | det |
| 17 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 thought | aux:pass |
| 19 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 thought | advmod |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 brave | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 King | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 King | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Beasts | case |
| 26 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 King | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | infinitive | all other animals in the forest | me | naturally property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | me not said here | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present · passive | the Lion | everywhere property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the King | of Beasts | 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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