The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 1
Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City.
Who acts: brilliancy · What happens: protect, dazzle · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brilliancy), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 eyes | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 eyes | case |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dazzled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 eyes | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 spectacles | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spectacles | det |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spectacles | amod |
| 8 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 protected | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Dorothy | punct |
| 10 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spectacles | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 friends | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Dorothy | conj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 first | case |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 dazzled | obl |
| 17 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 brilliancy | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brilliancy | det |
| 20 | brilliancy | brilliancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dazzled | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 City | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 City | det |
| 23 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 City | amod |
| 24 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 brilliancy | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 dazzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | participle | eyes not said here | by the green spectacles | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dazzle | past · passive | the brilliancy of the wonderful City | eyes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=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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