The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 48

I learned that if I roared very loudly every living thing was frightened and got out of my way.

Who acts: I · What happens: learn, roar, frighten, get out · To what, where: living thing, way

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 roared	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 roared	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 roared	nsubj
6	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 learned	advcl
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 loudly	advmod
8	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	6 roared	advmod
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 thing	det
10	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	compound
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 frightened	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 frightened	aux:pass
13	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 roared	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 got	cc
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 learned	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 way	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 way	nmod:poss
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	learn	past	I			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roar a condition, not said to happen	past	I		loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	frighten	past · passive		every living thing		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	get out	past	I not said here	my way		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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