The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 75
So once more the little company set off upon the journey, the Lion walking with stately strides at Dorothy’s side.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: set off, walk · To what, where: little company, side
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 (Lion), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 set | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 company | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 company | amod |
| 6 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 journey | det |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Lion | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Lion | det |
| 14 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 journey | appos |
| 15 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 Lion | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 strides | case |
| 17 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 strides | amod |
| 18 | strides | stride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 walking | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 20 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 side | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Dorothy | case |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | participle · passive | the little company | upon the journey | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | the Lion not said here | Dorothy's side | with stately strides | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at side=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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