The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 46

“They are monstrous beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers,” replied the Lion, “and with claws so long and sharp that they could tear me in two as easily as I could kill Toto.

Who acts: leaps, monstrous beasts · What happens: be, reply, tear, kill · To what, where: monstrous beasts, Lion, Toto · 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 (leaps, monstrous beasts), 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 beasts	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beasts	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 beasts	cop
4	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beasts	amod
5	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 replied	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 bodies	case
7	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 beasts	nmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 bears	case
9	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bodies	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heads	cc
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bears	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 tigers	case
13	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heads	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beasts	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 beasts	punct
16	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Lion	det
18	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 replied	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 long	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 long	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 long	cc
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 claws	case
23	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 long	obl
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 long	advmod
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 replied	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sharp	cc
27	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 long	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 tear	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tear	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 tear	aux
31	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 long	advcl
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 tear	obj
33	in	in	ADV	_	31 tear	advmod
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 tear	obj
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 easily	advmod
36	easily	easily	ADV	_	31 tear	advmod
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 kill	mark
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 kill	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 kill	aux
40	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 easily	advcl
41	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 kill	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	leaps = leap	monstrous beasts	with bodies like bears and heads like tigers	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	monstrous beasts	the Lion	long property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lion=Topic
3	tear in a quote	could	leaps = leap	monstrous beasts = beast	easily property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Patient two=Result
4	kill in a quote	could	monstrous beasts = beast	Toto		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toto=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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