The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 157
I have played Wizard for so many years that I may as well continue the part a little longer.”
Who acts: I · What happens: play, continue · To what, where: part, many years
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 played | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | aux |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | Wizard | wizard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 played | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 years | amod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 played | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 continue | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 continue | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 continue | aux |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 14 continue | cc |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 years | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 part | det |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 little | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 played | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · perfect | I | the part | year | long, wizard property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||
| 2 | continue | may | I | many years | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
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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