The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 66
Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise.
Who acts: Everyone, greatest sorrow, men, Oz · What happens: love, be, sorrow · To what, where: Oz, return
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 (Everyone, greatest sorrow, men, 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 sorrow | amod |
| 8 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | cop |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 loved | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 love | mark |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 one | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 return | case |
| 19 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 love | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stupid | punct |
| 21 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 28 stupid | mark |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 men | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 men | det |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 stupid | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 stupid | cop |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 28 stupid | advmod |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 stupid | advmod |
| 28 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 love | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ugly | cc |
| 30 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stupid | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 mate | mark |
| 32 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stupid | parataxis |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 one | case |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 mate | appos |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 beautiful | advmod |
| 36 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 one | amod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 wise | cc |
| 38 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 beautiful | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Everyone | Oz | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | could · past | Oz's greatest sorrow | find property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | love | to-infinitive | Oz's greatest sorrow not said here | return | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | past | all men | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | all men not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | sorrow | Oz | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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