The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 26
“I think I could jump over it,” said the Cowardly Lion, after measuring the distance carefully in his mind.
Who acts: I, Cowardly Lion, Lion · What happens: think, jump, say, measure, mind · To what, where: ditch, distance, mind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Cowardly Lion, 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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 jump | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 jump | aux |
| 6 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 jump | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Lion | det |
| 13 | Cowardly | cowardly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Lion | amod |
| 14 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 measuring | punct |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 measuring | mark |
| 17 | measuring | measure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 distance | det |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 measuring | obj |
| 20 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 17 measuring | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 mind | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mind | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 measuring | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | jump in a quote | could | I | ditch | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Cowardly Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | measure | gerund | the Cowardly Lion not said here | the distance | Lion's mind | carefully property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme distance=Value | ||
| 5 | mind | Lion | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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