The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 73

It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.”

Who acts: It, Dorothy · What happens: seem, be, allow, scare · To what, where: me, you, Dorothy

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 (It, Dorothy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seems	nsubj
2	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seems	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cowardly	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cowardly	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 cowardly	cop
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 cowardly	advmod
9	cowardly	cowardly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seems	parataxis
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 cowardly	obl
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cowardly	cop
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 allow	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 allow	nsubj
15	allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 seems	advcl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 allow	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 scare	mark
18	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 allow	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 scare	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 easily	advmod
21	easily	easily	ADV	_	18 scare	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	It		me		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	must	Dorothy			than you; cowardly property	tree rules
3	allow a condition, not said to happen	present	Dorothy		you		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	scare not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here	Dorothy		easily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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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