The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 120
“No more than in any other city,” replied Oz; “but when you wear green spectacles, why of course everything you see looks green to you.
Who acts: more, you · What happens: reply, wear, see, look · To what, where: green spectacles, you · 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 (more, you), 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 | _ | 3 more | punct |
| 2 | No | no | ADV | _ | 3 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 city | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 city | amod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 more | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 looks | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 looks | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 looks | cc |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 wear | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 wear | nsubj |
| 18 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 looks | advcl |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spectacles | amod |
| 20 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wear | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 22 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 see | advmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 everything | case |
| 24 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 of | fixed |
| 25 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 27 see | obl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 spectacles | acl:relcl |
| 28 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | advcl |
| 29 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 looks | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 looks | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | more | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wear in a quote | present | you | green spectacles | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent spectacle=Source | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | you | of everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | look in a quote | present | more not said here | you | green property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to you=Experiencer |
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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