The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Opening, sentence 32
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
Who acts: Modern education, modern child, education · What happens: include, seek, dispense, tell · To what, where: morality, entertainment, wonder tales · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Modern education, modern child, education), 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 | Modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 education | amod |
| 2 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 includes | nsubj |
| 3 | includes | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | morality | morality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 includes | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 seeks | punct |
| 6 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 10 seeks | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 8 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 child | amod |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seeks | nsubj |
| 10 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 includes | parataxis |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 entertainment | advmod |
| 12 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seeks | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tales | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tales | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tales | compound |
| 16 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seeks | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dispenses | cc |
| 18 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 19 dispenses | advmod |
| 19 | dispenses | dispense | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seeks | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 incident | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 incident | det |
| 22 | disagreeable | disagreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 incident | amod |
| 23 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dispenses | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 includes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | Modern education | morality | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morality=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | present | the modern child | entertainment | education's wonder tales | therefore property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent entertainment=Theme in tale=Location | ||
| 3 | dispense | present | the modern child not said here | with all disagreeable incident; gladly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell | education | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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