The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 118
Then I thought, as the country was so green and beautiful, I would call it the Emerald City; and to make the name fit better I put green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green.”
Who acts: I, country, people, everything · What happens: think, be, call, make, put, see · To what, where: country, name, green spectacles · Speech: someone speaks here
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, country, people, everything), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 green | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 green | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 green | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 green | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 green | advmod |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beautiful | cc |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 green | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 call | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 call | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 call | aux |
| 16 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 call | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 City | det |
| 19 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 City | compound |
| 20 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 call | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 make | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 name | det |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 27 | fit | fit | ADV | _ | 28 better | advmod |
| 28 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 make | xcomp |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 put | nsubj |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 better | parataxis |
| 31 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 spectacles | amod |
| 32 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 put | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 people | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 people | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 people | det |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 put | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 green | punct |
| 38 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 44 green | mark |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 so | fixed |
| 40 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 44 green | nsubj |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 saw | nsubj |
| 42 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 everything | acl:relcl |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 green | cop |
| 44 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 make | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the country | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the country not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | call | would | I | country | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme city=Result | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | the name | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset name=Product | ||||
| 6 | put | past | I | green spectacles | on all people | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme on people=Destination | |||
| 7 | see | past | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | is | past | everything | green property | tree rules |
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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