The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 141
“I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,” spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar.
Who acts: Oz, voice · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: Oz, Beast, voice, one great roar · 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 (Oz, voice), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Oz | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Oz | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Oz | cop |
| 4 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Great | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Great | det |
| 7 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Oz | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Terrible | cc |
| 9 | Terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Great | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Oz | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Oz | punct |
| 12 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Beast | det |
| 14 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 voice | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 voice | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 roar | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 roar | cop |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 roar | nummod |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 roar | amod |
| 23 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 voice | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Oz | Oz | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Oz | the Beast | a voice | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | a voice | one great roar | 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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