The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 65
But, seeing they were bigger than the Lion, and remembering that there were two of them and only one of him, the Kalidahs again rushed forward, and the Lion crossed over the tree and turned to see what they would do next.
Who acts: arms, two, Kalidahs, Lion · What happens: see, be, remember, rush, cross, turn · To what, where: tree · 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 (arms, two, Kalidahs, 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 | _ | 3 seeing | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeing | punct |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bigger | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bigger | cop |
| 6 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 seeing | ccomp |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 Lion | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lion | det |
| 9 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bigger | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remembering | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 remembering | cc |
| 12 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 seeing | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 were | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 were | expl |
| 15 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 remembering | ccomp |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 were | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 two | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 one | cc |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 two | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rushed | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Kalidahs | det |
| 26 | Kalidahs | Kalidahs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 rushed | nsubj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 rushed | advmod |
| 28 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | parataxis |
| 29 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 28 rushed | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 crossed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 crossed | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Lion | det |
| 33 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 crossed | nsubj |
| 34 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 rushed | conj |
| 35 | over | over | ADP | _ | 37 tree | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tree | det |
| 37 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 crossed | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 turned | cc |
| 39 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 crossed | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 see | mark |
| 41 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 turned | xcomp |
| 42 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 45 do | obj |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 do | nsubj |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 do | aux |
| 45 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 see | ccomp |
| 46 | next | next | ADV | _ | 45 do | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | arms = arm | than the Lion; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remember | gerund | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | be | past | two of arms | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rush | past | the Kalidahs | again | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | cross | past | the Lion | the tree | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | turn | past | the Lion not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | see | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | do | would | arms = arm | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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