The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 31
Beautiful green flowers stood in the windows, and there was a shelf with a row of little green books.
Who acts: Beautiful green flowers · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: windows, shelf
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 (Beautiful green flowers), 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 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flowers | amod |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flowers | amod |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 windows | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 windows | det |
| 7 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shelf | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shelf | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shelf | det |
| 13 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 row | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 row | det |
| 16 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shelf | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 books | case |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 books | amod |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 books | amod |
| 20 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 row | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Beautiful green flowers | the windows | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in window=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a shelf | with a row of little green books | 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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