The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Opening, sentence 30
The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.
What happens: bring · To what, where: winged fairies
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: 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 | 3 fairies | det |
| 2 | winged | winged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fairies | amod |
| 3 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Grimm | case |
| 5 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fairies | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Andersen | cc |
| 7 | Andersen | Andersen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Grimm | conj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 happiness | amod |
| 11 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 hearts | case |
| 13 | childish | childish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hearts | amod |
| 14 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | obl |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 creations | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 creations | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 creations | amod |
| 18 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 creations | amod |
| 19 | creations | creation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect · passive | the winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen | to childish hearts; than all other human creations | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination happiness=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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