The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Opening, sentence 33
Having this thought in mind, the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written solely to please children of today.
Who acts: story · What happens: have, write, please · To what, where: thought, mind, Wonderful Wizard, children
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 (story), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thought | det |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 mind | case |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 written | mark |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 written | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Wizard | det |
| 12 | Wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Wizard | amod |
| 13 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 written | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Oz | case |
| 15 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Wizard | nmod |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Oz | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 written | aux:pass |
| 18 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 story | acl:relcl |
| 19 | solely | solely | ADV | _ | 18 written | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 please | mark |
| 21 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 written | advcl |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 please | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 today | case |
| 24 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 children | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | this thought | mind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | the story not said here | the Wonderful Wizard of Oz | solely property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | please | to-infinitive | the story not said here | children of today | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |
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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