The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 79
Once, indeed, the Tin Woodman stepped upon a beetle that was crawling along the road, and killed the poor little thing.
Who acts: Tin Woodman, beetle · What happens: step, crawl, kill · To what, where: road, poor little thing
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 (Tin Woodman, beetle), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 stepped | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Woodman | det |
| 6 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Woodman | compound |
| 7 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stepped | nsubj |
| 8 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 beetle | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 beetle | det |
| 11 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stepped | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 crawling | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 crawling | aux |
| 14 | crawling | crawl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 beetle | acl:relcl |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 17 road | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 road | det |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crawling | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 killed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 killed | cc |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stepped | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 thing | det |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thing | amod |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thing | amod |
| 24 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 killed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | the Tin Woodman | upon a beetle; indeed, once property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon beetle=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | crawl | past · progressive | a beetle | the road | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | the Tin Woodman not said here | the poor little thing | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
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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