The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 32

“I am terribly afraid of falling, myself,” said the Cowardly Lion, “but I suppose there is nothing to do but try it.

Who acts: Cowardly Lion, nothing · What happens: be, fall, say, suppose, do, try · To what, where: Cowardly Lion, fall · 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 (Cowardly Lion, nothing), 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	_	5 afraid	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 afraid	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 afraid	cop
4	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	5 afraid	advmod
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 falling	mark
7	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 afraid	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 myself	punct
9	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 falling	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 afraid	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 afraid	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Lion	det
14	Cowardly	cowardly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Lion	amod
15	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 suppose	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 suppose	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 suppose	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 suppose	nsubj
20	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 is	expl
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 suppose	ccomp
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 is	nsubj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 do	mark
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 nothing	acl
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 try	cc
27	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 do	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 try	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the Cowardly Lion = lion			afraid, terribly property	tree rules
2	fall in a quote	gerund	the Cowardly Lion = lion not said here	the Cowardly Lion = lion			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Cowardly Lion				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	suppose in a quote	present	the Cowardly Lion = lion				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	be in a quote	present	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do in a quote	to-infinitive	nothing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	try in a quote	infinitive	nothing not said here	fall			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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