The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 88

Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it.

Who acts: Lion, tiny ant · What happens: walk, see, toil, step, not harm · To what, where: tiny ant, ant

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 (Lion, tiny ant), 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	Thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 carefully	advmod
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eyes	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walked	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eyes	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 saw	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ant	det
19	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ant	amod
20	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
21	toiling	toil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 ant	acl
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	25 step	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 step	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 step	aux
25	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 toiling	ccomp
26	over	over	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 step	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 harm	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	33 harm	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 harm	mark
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 harm	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 harm	mark
33	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 saw	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 harm	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Lion			with Lion's eyes on the road; carefully, thereafter property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	Lion	a tiny ant			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ant=Stimulus
3	toil	gerund	a tiny ant not said here				tree rules
4	step	would	Lion		ant		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory
5	not harm	to-infinitive	Lion not said here	ant			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=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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