The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 57
But what interested Dorothy most was the big throne of green marble that stood in the middle of the room.
Who acts: green marble · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: most big throne, middle
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 (green marble), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 throne | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 throne | nsubj |
| 3 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Dorothy | amod |
| 4 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 throne | nsubj |
| 5 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 throne | amod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 throne | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 throne | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 throne | amod |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 marble | case |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 marble | amod |
| 12 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throne | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 marble | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 middle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 middle | det |
| 17 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 room | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 room | det |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 middle | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 throne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the most big throne | of green marble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | green marble | the middle of the room | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=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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