The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Opening, sentence 34
It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.
Who acts: thought · What happens: aspire, modernize, be, retain, leave out · To what, where: wonderment, heartaches
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 (thought), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 aspires | nsubj |
| 2 | aspires | aspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tale | case |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 tale | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tale | det |
| 6 | modernized | modernize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tale | amod |
| 7 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tale | compound |
| 8 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 aspires | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 retained | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 retained | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wonderment | det |
| 13 | wonderment | wonderment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 retained | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 joy | cc |
| 15 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wonderment | conj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 retained | aux:pass |
| 17 | retained | retain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 aspires | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heartaches | det |
| 20 | heartaches | heartache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 left | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 nightmares | cc |
| 22 | nightmares | nightmare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 heartaches | conj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | aux:pass |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 retained | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 left | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 aspires | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aspire | present | thought | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | modernize | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is | gerund | to a modernized fairy tale | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | retain | present · passive | the wonderment and joy | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | leave out | present · passive | the heartaches and nightmares | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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