The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 104

“When I grew up I became a ventriloquist, and at that I was very well trained by a great master.

Who acts: Kansas, great master · What happens: grow up, become, train · To what, where: ventriloquist, Kansas, that

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kansas, great master), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 grew	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 became	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 grew	compound:prt
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 became	nsubj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ventriloquist	det
9	ventriloquist	ventriloquist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 trained	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 trained	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 trained	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 trained	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 trained	aux:pass
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 trained	advmod
18	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 became	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 master	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 master	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 master	amod
22	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trained	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow up in a quote	past	Kansas				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become in a quote	past	Kansas	a ventriloquist			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	train in a quote	past · passive	a great master	Kansas	that	well property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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