The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 44
To others he appears as a beautiful fairy, or a brownie, or in any other form that pleases him.
Who acts: man, other form · What happens: appear, please · To what, where: other form, man
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 (man, other form), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 others | case |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appears | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 appears | nsubj |
| 4 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 fairy | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fairy | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fairy | amod |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appears | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brownie | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 brownie | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 brownie | det |
| 12 | brownie | brownie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fairy | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 form | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 form | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 form | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 form | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 form | amod |
| 18 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appears | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 pleases | nsubj |
| 20 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 form | acl:relcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pleases | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | man | any other form | to others; as a beautiful fairy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location | |||
| 2 | please | present | any other form | man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=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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