The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 83

He became greatly frightened at this and made many motions to Dorothy to relieve him, but she could not understand.

Who acts: thing, Woodman · What happens: become, frighten, make, relieve, not understand · To what, where: this, many motions, Dorothy, 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 (thing, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	2 became	advmod
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 became	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 frightened	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 motions	amod
10	motions	motion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Dorothy	case
12	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 relieve	mark
14	relieve	relieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 made	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 relieve	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 understand	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 understand	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 understand	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 understand	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 understand	advmod
21	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 became	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	thing				greatly property	tree rules
2	frighten	participle	thing not said here			this		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	past	thing not said here	many motions	Dorothy			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset motion=Product
4	relieve	to-infinitive	thing not said here	thing				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	not understand	could	Woodman					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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