The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 93
“Because if you did not wear spectacles the brightness and glory of the Emerald City would blind you.
Who acts: you, Emerald City · What happens: not wear, glory · To what, where: spectacles
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, Emerald City), 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 | _ | 7 wear | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 wear | mark |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 Because | fixed |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wear | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wear | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wear | advmod |
| 7 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wear | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brightness | det |
| 10 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blind | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glory | cc |
| 12 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brightness | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 City | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 City | det |
| 15 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 City | compound |
| 16 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 glory | nmod |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 blind | aux |
| 18 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spectacles | acl:relcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 blind | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wear in a quote | past · do-support | you | spectacles | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent spectacle=Source | ||||
| 2 | glory in a quote | the Emerald City | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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