The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 75
Quelala was much too wise not to swim, and he was not in the least spoiled by all his good fortune.
Who acts: Quelala, good fortune · What happens: be, not swim, not spoil · To what, where: Quelala
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 (Quelala, good fortune), 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 | Quelala | Quelala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wise | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wise | cop |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 wise | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 wise | advmod |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 swim | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 swim | mark |
| 8 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wise | csubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoiled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spoiled | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spoiled | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 spoiled | aux:pass |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 spoiled | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 spoiled | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 least | det |
| 16 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 spoiled | advmod |
| 17 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wise | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 fortune | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 fortune | det:predet |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fortune | amod |
| 22 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spoiled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Quelala | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not swim | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not spoil | past · passive | Quelala's good fortune | Quelala | 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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