The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 50

If the elephants and the tigers and the bears had ever tried to fight me, I should have run myself—I’m such a coward; but just as soon as they hear me roar they all try to get away from me, and of course I let them go.”

Who acts: elephants, I · What happens: try, fight, run, be, hear, roar · To what, where: me, myself, coward, elephants

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 (elephants, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 tried	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elephants	det
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tried	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tigers	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tigers	det
6	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 elephants	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bears	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bears	det
9	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 elephants	conj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tried	aux
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 tried	advmod
12	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 run	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fight	mark
14	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tried	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 fight	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tried	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 run	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 run	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 run	aux
20	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	20 run	obl:unmarked
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 ’m	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ’m	nsubj
24	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 run	advcl
25	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 coward	det:predet
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 coward	det
27	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ’m	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 roar	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 roar	cc
30	just	just	ADV	_	32 soon	advmod
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 soon	advmod
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 roar	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 hear	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hear	nsubj
35	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 roar	advcl
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 hear	obj
37	roar	roar	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 run	parataxis
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 try	nsubj
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 try	nsubj
40	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 roar	parataxis
41	to	to	PART	_	42 get	mark
42	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 try	xcomp
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 get	advmod
44	from	from	ADP	_	45 me	case
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 get	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 let	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 let	cc
48	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	51 let	advmod
49	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 of	fixed
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 let	nsubj
51	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 run	parataxis
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 let	obj
53	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 let	xcomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 go	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	51 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the elephants and the tigers and the bears		ever		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fight not said to happen	to-infinitive	the elephants and the tigers and the bears not said here	me			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
3	run	should · perfect	I	myself			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be	present	I	such coward			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot coward=Theme
5	hear	present	elephants = elephant	me			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
6	roar	infinitive				soon property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	try	present	elephants = elephant				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	get away not said to happen	to-infinitive	elephants = elephant not said here			from me; away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from i=Source
9	let	past	I	elephants = elephant			tree rules
10	go	infinitive	elephants = elephant not said here				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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