The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 37
Then giving a great spring, he shot through the air and landed safely on the other side.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: give, shoot, land · To what, where: air, other side
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 giving | advmod |
| 2 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 shot | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spring | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spring | amod |
| 5 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 giving | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 giving | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shot | nsubj |
| 8 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shot | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 landed | cc |
| 13 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shot | conj |
| 14 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 13 landed | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 side | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 side | amod |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 landed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | Lion not said here | then; spring | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shoot | past | Lion | the air | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through air=Destination | ||||
| 3 | land | past | Lion not said here | the other side | safely property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on side=Destination |
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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