The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 55
It was a big, round room with a high arched roof, and the walls and ceiling and floor were covered with large emeralds set closely together.
Who acts: door, big round room · What happens: be, arch, cover, set · To what, where: big round room, walls, large emeralds
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 (door, big round room), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 room | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 room | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 room | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 big | punct |
| 6 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 room | amod |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 roof | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 roof | det |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 roof | amod |
| 11 | arched | arch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 roof | amod |
| 12 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 covered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 covered | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 walls | det |
| 16 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ceiling | cc |
| 18 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 walls | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 floor | cc |
| 20 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 walls | conj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 covered | aux:pass |
| 22 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 room | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 emeralds | case |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 emeralds | amod |
| 25 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 covered | obl |
| 26 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 emeralds | acl |
| 27 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 26 set | advmod |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 26 set | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 room | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | door | a big round room | with a high arched roof | tree rules | |||
| 2 | arch | participle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | cover | past · passive | a big round room not said here | the walls and ceiling and floor | with large emeralds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with emerald=Theme | |||
| 4 | set | participle | large emeralds not said here | closely, together property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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