The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 117
“Just to amuse myself, and keep the good people busy, I ordered them to build this City, and my Palace; and they did it all willingly and well.
Who acts: clouds, people · What happens: amuse, keep, order, build, do · To what, where: clouds, good people, people, City, course
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 (clouds, people), 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 | _ | 4 amuse | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 amuse | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 amuse | mark |
| 4 | amuse | amuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 amuse | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 keep | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 keep | cc |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 amuse | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 keep | obj |
| 12 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 keep | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordered | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ordered | nsubj |
| 15 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 amuse | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ordered | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 build | mark |
| 18 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ordered | xcomp |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 City | det |
| 20 | City | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 build | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Palace | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Palace | cc |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 Palace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 build | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 did | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 did | cc |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 did | nsubj |
| 28 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 amuse | parataxis |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 did | obj |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 31 willingly | advmod |
| 31 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 28 did | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 well | cc |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 willingly | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 amuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse in a quote | to-infinitive | clouds = cloud | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | infinitive | the good people | busy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 3 | order in a quote | past | clouds = cloud | people | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | build not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | clouds = cloud not said here | this City | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset city=Beneficiary palace=Product | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | past | people | course | willingly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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