The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 81
These tears ran slowly down his face and over the hinges of his jaw, and there they rusted.
Who acts: tears, jaws · What happens: run, rust · To what, where: face
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 (tears, jaws), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 tears | det |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hinges | cc |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 hinges | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hinges | det |
| 11 | hinges | hinge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 face | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 jaw | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 jaw | nmod:poss |
| 14 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hinges | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rusted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rusted | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 rusted | expl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rusted | nsubj |
| 19 | rusted | rust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | this tears | thing's face and the hinges of thing's jaw | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down face=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | rust | past | jaws = jaw | there | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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