The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 49

Whenever I’ve met a man I’ve been awfully scared; but I just roared at him, and he has always run away as fast as he could go.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: meet, be, roar, run away, go · To what, where: man

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, man), 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	Whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 met	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
3	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 met	aux
4	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 scared	nsubj
8	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 scared	cop
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 scared	cop
10	awfully	awfully	ADV	_	11 scared	advmod
11	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	acl:relcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 roared	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 roared	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 roared	nsubj
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 roared	advmod
16	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 roared	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 run	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 run	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 run	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 run	aux
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 run	advmod
24	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 roared	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 run	advmod
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 fast	advmod
27	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 run	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 go	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 fast	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	meet	present · perfect	I	a man	whenever property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
2	is	present	I	a man not said here	awfully, scared property	tree rules
3	roar	past	I		at man	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location
4	run away	present · perfect	man		always, away, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	could	man			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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