The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 135
It was nearly as big as an elephant, and the green throne seemed hardly strong enough to hold its weight.
Who acts: room, green throne · What happens: be, seem, hold · To what, where: weight
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 (room, green throne), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 big | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | cop |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 elephant | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 elephant | det |
| 8 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 big | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seemed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 throne | det |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 throne | amod |
| 13 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | conj |
| 15 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 16 strong | advmod |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 strong | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 hold | mark |
| 19 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 strong | advcl |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 weight | nmod:poss |
| 21 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hold | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | room | as a elephant; big, nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the green throne | strong property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | the green throne not said here | room's weight | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=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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