The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 52
The King of Beasts shouldn’t be a coward,” said the Scarecrow.
Who acts: King · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: coward, Scarecrow · 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 (King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Beasts | case |
| 4 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 King | nmod |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 coward | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 coward | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 coward | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 coward | det |
| 9 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Scarecrow | det |
| 14 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | should | a coward | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the King of Beasts | the Scarecrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Topic |
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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