The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 77

But after a time he became more at ease, and presently Toto and the Cowardly Lion had grown to be good friends.

Who acts: Lion, Toto · What happens: become, grow, be · To what, where: ease, good friends

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, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 became	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 became	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 ease	case
9	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grown	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grown	cc
12	presently	presently	ADV	_	13 Toto	advmod
13	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 grown	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Lion	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Lion	det
16	Cowardly	Cowardly	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Lion	compound
17	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Toto	conj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grown	aux
19	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 became	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	23 friends	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 friends	cop
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 friends	amod
23	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grown	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	become	past	Lion		ease	time	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	grow	past · perfect	Toto and the Cowardly Lion				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	Toto and the Cowardly Lion not said here	good friends			tree rules

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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