The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 107
“After a time,” continued Oz, “I tired of that, and became a balloonist.”
What happens: continue, become · To what, where: Oz, balloonist
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: 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 continued | punct |
| 2 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tired | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tired | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tired | nsubj |
| 12 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 continued | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 that | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 tired | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 became | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 became | cc |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 continued | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 balloonist | det |
| 19 | balloonist | balloonist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 became | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Oz | time | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent oz=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become in a quote | past | a balloonist | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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