The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 60
There was no hair upon this head, but it had eyes and a nose and mouth, and was much bigger than the head of the biggest giant.
Who acts: hair, chair · What happens: be, have · To what, where: eyes
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 (hair, chair), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 hair | det |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hair | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nose | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 nose | det |
| 15 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mouth | cc |
| 17 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nose | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bigger | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bigger | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 bigger | cop |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 bigger | advmod |
| 22 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 had | conj |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 head | det |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bigger | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 giant | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 giant | det |
| 28 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 giant | amod |
| 29 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 head | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no hair upon this head | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | chair | eyes and a nose and mouth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | chair not said here | than the head of the biggest giant; big 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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