The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 42
“You see, Oz is a Great Wizard, and can take on any form he wishes.
Who acts: You, Oz, man · What happens: see, be, take, wish · To what, where: Great Wizard, form
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 (You, Oz, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wizard | punct |
| 5 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Wizard | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Wizard | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Wizard | det |
| 8 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Wizard | amod |
| 9 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 form | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 form | det |
| 16 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wishes | nsubj |
| 18 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 form | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Oz | a Great Wizard | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | can | You not said here | any form | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on form=Destination | ||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | man | any form not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot form=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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