The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 65
It was not such an awful voice as she had expected to come from the big Head; so she took courage and answered:
Who acts: mouth, awful voice, Oz · What happens: not be, expect, come, take, answer · To what, where: Oz, big Head, courage
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 (mouth, awful voice, Oz), 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 | 4 such | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 such | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 such | advmod |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 6 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voice | amod |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 such | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 expected | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 expected | aux |
| 11 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 voice | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 expected | xcomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Head | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Head | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Head | amod |
| 17 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 took | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 such | parataxis |
| 22 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 answered | cc |
| 24 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 such | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | mouth | a awful voice obl; such property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | expect | past · perfect · passive | a awful voice not said here | Oz | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | Oz not said here | the big Head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from head=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Oz | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | Oz not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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