The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 122
But my people have worn green glasses on their eyes so long that most of them think it really is an Emerald City, and it certainly is a beautiful place, abounding in jewels and precious metals, and every good thing that is needed to make one happy.
Who acts: people, most, balloon, beautiful place · What happens: wear, think, be, abound, need, make · To what, where: green glasses, eyes, balloon, Emerald City, beautiful place, jewels
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 (people, most, balloon, beautiful place), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 worn | cc |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 people | nmod:poss |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 worn | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worn | aux |
| 5 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glasses | amod |
| 7 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 worn | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 glasses | nmod |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 worn | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 think | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 most | nmod |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worn | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 think | obj |
| 19 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 City | advmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 City | cop |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 City | det |
| 22 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 City | compound |
| 23 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 it | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 place | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 place | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 place | nsubj |
| 27 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 31 place | advmod |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 place | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 place | det |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 place | amod |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 think | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 abounding | punct |
| 33 | abounding | abound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 place | acl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 jewels | case |
| 35 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 abounding | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 metals | cc |
| 37 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 metals | amod |
| 38 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 jewels | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 thing | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 thing | cc |
| 41 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 thing | det |
| 42 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 thing | amod |
| 43 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worn | obl |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 needed | aux:pass |
| 46 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 thing | acl:relcl |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 make | mark |
| 48 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 needed | advcl |
| 49 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 make | obj |
| 50 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 make | xcomp |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present · perfect | my people | green glasses | people's eyes | every good thing obl; long property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent glass=Source | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | most of people | balloon | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | most of people not said here | a Emerald City | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | balloon | a beautiful place | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | abound | gerund | a beautiful place not said here | jewels and precious metals | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jewel=Location | ||||
| 6 | need | present · passive | every good thing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | one | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |
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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