The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 6
Many shops stood in the street, and Dorothy saw that everything in them was green.
Who acts: Many shops, Dorothy, everything · What happens: stand, see, be · To what, where: street · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Many shops, Dorothy, everything), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shops | amod |
| 2 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 street | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 street | det |
| 6 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 9 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 green | mark |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 green | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 everything | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 green | cop |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Many shops | the street | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in street=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Dorothy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | everything | green property | 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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