The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 56
In the center of the roof was a great light, as bright as the sun, which made the emeralds sparkle in a wonderful manner.
Who acts: sun, emeralds · What happens: be, make, sparkle · To what, where: great light, center, wonderful manner
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 (sun, emeralds), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 center | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 center | det |
| 3 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 light | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 roof | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roof | det |
| 6 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 center | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 light | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 light | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 light | amod |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bright | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 bright | case |
| 13 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 light | amod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 sun | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun | det |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bright | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sun | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 emeralds | det |
| 21 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sparkle | nsubj |
| 22 | sparkle | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 manner | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 manner | det |
| 25 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 manner | amod |
| 26 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sparkle | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a great light | the center of the roof | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the sun | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sparkle | present | the emeralds | a wonderful manner | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location |
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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