The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 82
When Dorothy presently asked him a question the Tin Woodman could not open his mouth, for his jaws were tightly rusted together.
Who acts: Dorothy, Tin Woodman · What happens: ask, not open, rust · To what, where: question, thing, mouth, jaws · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Dorothy, Tin Woodman), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 asked | advmod |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 question | det |
| 7 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Woodman | det |
| 9 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Woodman | compound |
| 10 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 open | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 open | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 open | advmod |
| 13 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 open | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rusted | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 rusted | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 19 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rusted | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 rusted | aux:pass |
| 21 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 22 rusted | advmod |
| 22 | rusted | rust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 open | advcl |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 rusted | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Dorothy | a question | thing | presently property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not open | could | the Tin Woodman | thing's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rust | past · passive | thing's jaws | tightly, together property | 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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