The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 134
But when the Woodman entered the great Throne Room he saw neither the Head nor the Lady, for Oz had taken the shape of a most terrible Beast.
Who acts: Woodman, Oz · What happens: enter, see, take · To what, where: great Throne Room, Head, shape
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, Oz), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 entered | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Woodman | det |
| 4 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Room | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Room | amod |
| 8 | Throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Room | compound |
| 9 | Room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 Head | cc:preconj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Head | det |
| 14 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 Lady | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lady | det |
| 17 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Head | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 taken | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 taken | mark |
| 20 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 saw | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shape | det |
| 24 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Beast | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Beast | det |
| 27 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 28 terrible | advmod |
| 28 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Beast | amod |
| 29 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 shape | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the Woodman | the great Throne Room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Woodman | the Head nor the Lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | Oz | the shape of a terrible Beast | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
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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