The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 51
But this one was so broad and deep that the Lion knew at once he could not leap across it.
Who acts: one, Lion · What happens: be, know, not leap · To what, where: road
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 (one, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 broad | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broad | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 broad | advmod |
| 6 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 deep | cc |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 broad | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 knew | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lion | det |
| 11 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broad | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 knew | obl |
| 14 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 18 leap | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 leap | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 leap | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 leap | advmod |
| 18 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knew | advcl |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 leap | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this one | broad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | this one not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | know | past | the Lion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not leap | could | Lion | road | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Trajectory |
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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