The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 64
The Lion, although he was certainly afraid, turned to face the Kalidahs, and then he gave so loud and terrible a roar that Dorothy screamed and the Scarecrow fell over backward, while even the fierce beasts stopped short and looked at him in surprise.
Who acts: Lion, Dorothy, Scarecrow, fierce beasts · What happens: be, turn, face, give, scream, fall over · To what, where: Kalidahs, roar, surprise
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, Dorothy, Scarecrow, fierce 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 afraid | punct |
| 4 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 8 afraid | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 afraid | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | cop |
| 7 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 afraid | advmod |
| 8 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 afraid | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 face | mark |
| 12 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 turned | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Kalidahs | det |
| 14 | Kalidahs | Kalidahs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 face | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 gave | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | conj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 loud | advmod |
| 21 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gave | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 terrible | cc |
| 23 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 loud | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 roar | det |
| 25 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 screamed | obj |
| 27 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 screamed | nsubj |
| 28 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 roar | acl:relcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fell | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Scarecrow | det |
| 31 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fell | nsubj |
| 32 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 screamed | conj |
| 33 | over | over | ADV | _ | 34 backward | advmod |
| 34 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 32 fell | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 stopped | punct |
| 36 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 41 stopped | mark |
| 37 | even | even | ADV | _ | 40 beasts | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 beasts | det |
| 39 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 beasts | amod |
| 40 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 stopped | nsubj |
| 41 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fell | conj |
| 42 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 stopped | xcomp |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 looked | cc |
| 44 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 stopped | conj |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 looked | obl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 surprise | case |
| 48 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 looked | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Lion | afraid, certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | participle | the Lion not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | face | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | the Kalidahs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kalidahs=Destination | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Lion | a roar | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme | |||
| 5 | scream speech: express | past | Dorothy | a roar | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 6 | fall over | past | the Scarecrow | backward property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | stop | past | the fierce beasts | short property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | look | past | the fierce beasts not said here | surprise | at beast | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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