The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 36
I have been to the Emerald City many times, and it is a beautiful and wonderful place; but I have never been permitted to see the Great Oz, nor do I know of any living person who has seen him.”
Who acts: I, Emerald City, living person · What happens: be, not permit, see, know · To what, where: beautiful place, I, Great Oz, person
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Emerald City, living person), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 City | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 City | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 City | cop |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 City | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 City | det |
| 6 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 City | compound |
| 7 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 place | nsubj |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 City | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 place | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 place | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 place | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wonderful | cc |
| 17 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beautiful | conj |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 permitted | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 permitted | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 permitted | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 permitted | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 permitted | advmod |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 permitted | aux:pass |
| 25 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 place | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 permitted | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Oz | det |
| 29 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Oz | amod |
| 30 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 know | punct |
| 32 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 35 know | cc |
| 33 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 know | aux |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 know | nsubj |
| 35 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 place | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 person | case |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 person | det |
| 38 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 person | amod |
| 39 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 know | obl |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 seen | nsubj |
| 41 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 seen | aux |
| 42 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 person | acl:relcl |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 seen | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | I | time | to the Emerald City | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the Emerald City | a beautiful place | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not permit | present · perfect · passive | I | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Great Oz | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oz=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | know | present · do-support | I | of any living person | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of person=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | see | present · perfect | any living person | person | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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