The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 180
“The tears will fall on your green silk gown and spot it.”
Who acts: tears · What happens: fall, spot · To what, where: green silk gown, gown
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 (tears), 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 | _ | 5 fall | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tears | det |
| 3 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fall | aux |
| 5 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 gown | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 gown | nmod:poss |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gown | amod |
| 9 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gown | compound |
| 10 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fall | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spot | cc |
| 12 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fall | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spot | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fall | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in a quote | future | the tears | your green silk gown | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on gown=Location | ||||
| 2 | spot in a quote | infinitive | the tears not said here | gown | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
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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