The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 121
The Emerald City was built a great many years ago, for I was a young man when the balloon brought me here, and I am a very old man now.
Who acts: I, balloon · What happens: build, be, bring · To what, where: Emerald City, me, old man
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, balloon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 City | det |
| 2 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 City | compound |
| 3 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 built | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | aux:pass |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 years | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 years | amod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 years | amod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 built | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 man | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | conj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 brought | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 balloon | det |
| 20 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | nsubj |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | acl:relcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | obj |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 brought | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 man | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 man | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 man | nsubj |
| 27 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 man | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 old | advmod |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | amod |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | conj |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 man | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the Emerald City | ago property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I | for a young man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | the balloon | me | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 4 | is a | present | I | a old man | now | 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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