The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 95
They are all locked on, for Oz so ordered it when the City was first built, and I have the only key that will unlock them.”
Who acts: Oz, I, only key · What happens: lock on, order, build, have, unlock · To what, where: brightness, face, City, only key
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 (Oz, I, only key), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 locked | aux:pass |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 locked | advmod |
| 4 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 locked | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 ordered | mark |
| 8 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | nsubj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 ordered | advmod |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 locked | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ordered | obj |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 built | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 City | det |
| 14 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 built | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 built | aux:pass |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 built | advmod |
| 17 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ordered | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 locked | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 key | det |
| 23 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 key | amod |
| 24 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 unlock | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 unlock | aux |
| 27 | unlock | unlock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 key | acl:relcl |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 unlock | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock on | present · passive | brightness | all property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | order | past | Oz | face | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | past · passive | the City | first property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | the only key | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient | ||||
| 5 | unlock | future | the only key | brightness | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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