The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 87
In this country everyone must pay for everything he gets.
Who acts: everyone, Kansas · What happens: pay, get · To what, where: country
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 (everyone, Kansas), 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 country | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 country | det |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pay | obl |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 pay | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 pay | aux |
| 6 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 everything | case |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 pay | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gets | nsubj |
| 10 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 everything | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | must | everyone | this country | for everything | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for everything=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | present | Kansas | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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