The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 76
Toto did not approve of this new comrade at first, for he could not forget how nearly he had been crushed between the Lion’s great jaws.
Who acts: Toto · What happens: not approve, not forget, crush · To what, where: Toto
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 (Toto), 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 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 approve | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 approve | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 approve | advmod |
| 4 | approve | approve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 comrade | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 comrade | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 comrade | amod |
| 8 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 approve | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 first | case |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 approve | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forget | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 forget | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 forget | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 forget | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 forget | advmod |
| 16 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 approve | conj |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 nearly | advmod |
| 18 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 22 crushed | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 crushed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 crushed | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 crushed | aux:pass |
| 22 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 forget | advcl |
| 23 | between | between | ADP | _ | 28 jaws | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Lion | det |
| 25 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Lion | case |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 jaws | amod |
| 28 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 crushed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 approve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not approve | past · do-support | Toto | of this new comrade | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not forget | could | Toto | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | crush | past · perfect · passive | Toto | between the Lion's great jaws; nearly property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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