The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 136
The Beast had a head like that of a rhinoceros, only there were five eyes in its face.
Who acts: Beast, five eyes · What happens: have, be · To what, where: head
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 (Beast, five eyes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Beast | det |
| 2 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 head | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 had | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rhinoceros | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rhinoceros | det |
| 10 | rhinoceros | rhinoceros | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 that | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 were | punct |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 were | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 were | expl |
| 14 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 15 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 eyes | nummod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 were | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 face | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eyes | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Beast | a head | like that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | be | past | five eyes in Beast's face | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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