The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 58
It was shaped like a chair and sparkled with gems, as did everything else.
What happens: shape, sparkle, do · To what, where: marble, everything
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: 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 | 3 shaped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shaped | aux:pass |
| 3 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 chair | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chair | det |
| 6 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shaped | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sparkled | cc |
| 8 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shaped | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 gems | case |
| 10 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sparkled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 did | mark |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shaped | conj |
| 14 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 did | obj |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 everything | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | past · passive | marble | like a chair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | sparkle | participle | with gems | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gem=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
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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