The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 135
Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”
Who acts: Experience, only thing, you, more experience · What happens: be, bring, get · To what, where: only thing, knowledge, earth
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 (Experience, only thing, you, more experience), 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 | Experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 brings | nsubj |
| 7 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brings | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 earth | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 earth | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 longer | det |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 earth | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 earth | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 earth | cop |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | appos |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 experience | det |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 experience | amod |
| 19 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sure | nsubj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 sure | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sure | cop |
| 22 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 earth | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 get | mark |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sure | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 earth | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Experience | the only thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | the only thing | knowledge | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | earth | long property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | the more experience | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | the more experience not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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