The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 131
He did not know whether he would find Oz a lovely Lady or a Head, but he hoped it would be the lovely Lady.
Who acts: Woodman, room · What happens: not know, find, hope, be · To what, where: Oz, lovely Lady · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Woodman, room), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 9 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Lady | det |
| 11 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Lady | amod |
| 12 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 Head | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Head | det |
| 15 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Lady | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hoped | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 hoped | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hoped | nsubj |
| 19 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 Lady | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 Lady | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 Lady | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Lady | det |
| 24 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Lady | amod |
| 25 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 hoped | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Woodman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | find | would | Woodman | Oz | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent oz=Theme lady=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | hope | past | Woodman | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is a | would | room | the lovely Lady | tree rules |
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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