The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 138
Thick, woolly hair covered every part of it, and a more dreadful-looking monster could not be imagined.
Who acts: Thick woolly hair · What happens: cover, look, not imagine · To what, where: part, looking monster
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 (Thick woolly hair), 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 | Thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hair | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thick | punct |
| 3 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hair | amod |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 part | det |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 part | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 imagined | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 imagined | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 monster | det |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 dreadful | advmod |
| 14 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 looking | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 dreadful | punct |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 monster | amod |
| 17 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 imagined | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 imagined | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 imagined | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 imagined | aux:pass |
| 21 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 covered | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | Thick woolly hair | every part of room | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Destination | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | not imagine | could · passive | a looking monster | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=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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