The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Opening, sentence 3
This book is dedicated to my good friend & comrade My Wife L.F.B.
Who acts: book · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dedicated | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dedicated | cop |
| 4 | dedicated | dedicated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 friend | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friend | amod |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dedicated | obl |
| 9 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 10 comrade | cc |
| 10 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 friend | conj |
| 11 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 friend | nmod |
| 13 | L.F.B | L.F.B | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Wife | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dedicated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this book | to my good friend My Wife & comrade; dedicated 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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