The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 105
I can imitate any kind of a bird or beast.”
Who acts: I · What happens: imitate · To what, where: kind
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 imitate | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imitate | aux |
| 3 | imitate | imitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 kind | det |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 imitate | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bird | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 beast | cc |
| 10 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bird | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imitate | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 imitate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imitate | can | I | any kind of a bird or beast | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=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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