The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 93
One, much bigger than the others, seemed to be their leader.
Who acts: others · What happens: seem, be · To what, where: leader
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bigger | punct |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 bigger | advmod |
| 4 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 One | conj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 others | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 others | det |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 others | punct |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bigger | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 leader | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 leader | cop |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 leader | nmod:poss |
| 13 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the others | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the others not said here | others's leader | 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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