The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 5
These sounds made the little girl’s heart beat fast, for she did not know what made them; but Toto knew, and he walked close to Dorothy’s side, and did not even bark in return.
Who acts: sounds, heart, Toto · What happens: make, beat, not know, know, walk, not bark · To what, where: sounds, return · 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 (sounds, heart, Toto), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 sounds | det |
| 2 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 girl | case |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beat | nsubj |
| 9 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 beat | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 beat | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | ccomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 knew | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 knew | cc |
| 22 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 walked | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 walked | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 walked | nsubj |
| 27 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 28 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 walked | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 side | case |
| 30 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 side | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Dorothy | case |
| 32 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 close | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bark | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 bark | cc |
| 35 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 bark | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 bark | advmod |
| 37 | even | even | ADV | _ | 38 bark | advmod |
| 38 | bark | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 walked | advcl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 return | case |
| 40 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bark | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this sounds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | beat | present | the little girl's heart | fast property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make | past | sounds = sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product | |||||
| 5 | know | past | Toto | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | walk | past | Toto | close property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not bark | past · do-support | Toto not said here | return | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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