The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 73
“Well,” said the Cowardly Lion, drawing a long breath of relief, “I see we are going to live a little while longer, and I am glad of it, for it must be a very uncomfortable thing not to be alive.
Who acts: Cowardly Lion, we, breath · What happens: say, draw, go, live, be, not be · To what, where: long breath, little · 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 (Cowardly Lion, we, breath), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lion | det |
| 7 | Cowardly | cowardly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Lion | amod |
| 8 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drawing | punct |
| 10 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 going | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 breath | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 breath | amod |
| 13 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drawing | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 relief | case |
| 15 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 breath | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 going | aux |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 going | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 going | aux |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 live | mark |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 going | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 little | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 live | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 longer | mark |
| 28 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 live | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 glad | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 glad | cc |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 glad | nsubj |
| 32 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 glad | cop |
| 33 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 glad | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 thing | punct |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 thing | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 thing | nsubj |
| 39 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 thing | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 thing | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 thing | det |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 43 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 thing | amod |
| 44 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 glad | conj |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 alive | advmod |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 alive | mark |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 alive | cop |
| 48 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 thing | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Cowardly Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | draw | gerund | we not said here | a long breath of relief | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | we | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | a little | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the Cowardly Lion = lion | of relief; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | must | breath | for a uncomfortable thing | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not is in a quote | to-infinitive | breath not said here | alive property | tree rules |
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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