The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 59

In the center of the chair was an enormous Head, without a body to support it or any arms or legs whatever.

What happens: be, support · To what, where: enormous Head, center, chair

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	In	in	ADP	_	3 center	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 center	det
3	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Head	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 chair	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chair	det
6	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 center	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Head	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Head	det
9	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Head	amod
10	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 body	punct
12	without	without	ADP	_	14 body	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 body	det
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Head	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 support	mark
16	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 body	acl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 support	obj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 arms	cc
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 arms	det
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 support	obj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 legs	cc
22	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 arms	conj
23	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 arms	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Head	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a enormous Head and a body		the center of the chair			tree rules
2	support	to-infinitive		chair					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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