The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 81
This Cap had been made for a wedding present to Quelala, and it is said to have cost the princess half her kingdom.
What happens: make, say, cost · To what, where: Cap, present, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Cap | det |
| 2 | Cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 present | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 present | det |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 present | compound |
| 9 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Quelala | case |
| 11 | Quelala | Quelala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 present | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | aux:pass |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 made | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 cost | mark |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cost | aux |
| 19 | cost | cost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cost | obj |
| 22 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 24 kingdom | det:predet |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cost | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | this Cap | for a wedding present to Quelala | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for present=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | present | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cost | to-infinitive · perfect | the princess | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme princess=Beneficiary kingdom=Value |
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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