The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 53
“I know it,” returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail.
Who acts: mystery · What happens: know, return, wipe · To what, where: Scarecrow, Lion, tear, eye · 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 (mystery), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 returned | parataxis |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lion | det |
| 9 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wiping | punct |
| 11 | wiping | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 returned | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tear | det |
| 13 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wiping | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 eye | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eye | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wiping | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 tip | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tip | det |
| 19 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wiping | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tail | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tail | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tip | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | a mystery = mystery | Scarecrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the Lion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wipe | gerund | a tear | Lion's eye | with the tip of Lion's tail | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tear=Theme from eye=Trajectory |
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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