The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 32
When Dorothy had time to open these books she found them full of queer green pictures that made her laugh, they were so funny.
Who acts: Dorothy, fountain, queer green pictures · What happens: have, open, find, make, laugh, be · To what, where: books, fountain
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 (Dorothy, fountain, queer green pictures), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 funny | advcl |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 open | mark |
| 6 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 books | det |
| 8 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 open | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 books | acl:relcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | obj |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 found | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pictures | case |
| 14 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pictures | amod |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pictures | amod |
| 16 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 full | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pictures | acl:relcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 funny | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 funny | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 funny | advmod |
| 25 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 funny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Dorothy | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | this books | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | fountain | books = book | full property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||
| 4 | make | past | queer green pictures | fountain | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | laugh | infinitive | fountain not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | Dorothy | funny property | 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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