The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 86
“This will serve me a lesson,” said he, “to look where I step.
Who acts: This, Lion · What happens: serve, say, look, step · To what, where: Lion · 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 (This, Lion), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 serve | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 serve | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 serve | aux |
| 4 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 serve | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lesson | det |
| 7 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 serve | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 serve | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 serve | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 step | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 step | nsubj |
| 18 | step | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 look | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve in a quote | future | This | Lion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | Lion not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | step in a quote | present | Lion | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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