The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 60
“They are the Kalidahs!” said the Cowardly Lion, beginning to tremble.
Who acts: legs, Kalidahs · What happens: be, say, begin, tremble · To what, where: Kalidahs · 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 (legs, Kalidahs), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Kalidahs | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Kalidahs | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Kalidahs | det |
| 5 | Kalidahs | Kalidahs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kalidahs | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kalidahs | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lion | det |
| 10 | Cowardly | cowardly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Lion | amod |
| 11 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beginning | punct |
| 13 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 tremble | mark |
| 15 | tremble | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 beginning | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | legs = leg | the Kalidahs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Kalidahs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | gerund | the Kalidahs not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | tremble | to-infinitive | the Kalidahs not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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