The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 65
Her name was Gayelette, and she lived in a handsome palace built from great blocks of ruby.
Who acts: name, Oz · What happens: be, live, build, name · To what, where: Gayelette, handsome palace, great blocks
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Gayelette | cop |
| 4 | Gayelette | Gayelette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lived | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 11 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 palace | amod |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 palace | acl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 blocks | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blocks | amod |
| 16 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 built | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ruby | case |
| 18 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blocks | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Gayelette | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | past | Oz's name | a handsome palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | ||||
| 3 | build | participle | a handsome palace not said here | great blocks of ruby | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from block=Material | ||||
| 4 | name | Oz | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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