The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 28
Of course each one of them expected to see the Wizard in the shape he had taken before, and all were greatly surprised when they looked about and saw no one at all in the room.
Who acts: Wizard, all, travelers · What happens: expect, see, take, be, look · To what, where: Wizard, shape, one, all
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 (Wizard, all, travelers), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expected | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nmod |
| 7 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 expected | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wizard | det |
| 11 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 shape | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shape | det |
| 14 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taken | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 shape | acl:relcl |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 taken | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 surprised | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 surprised | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 surprised | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 surprised | cop |
| 23 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 24 surprised | advmod |
| 24 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 expected | conj |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 looked | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 looked | nsubj |
| 27 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 surprised | advcl |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 looked | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 saw | cc |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 expected | conj |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 one | det |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saw | obj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 all | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 one | nmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 room | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 room | det |
| 37 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 all | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past | of each one of travelers | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Wizard | the shape | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wizard=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | Wizard | the shape not said here | before property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | all | greatly, surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look | past | travelers = traveler | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | see | past | no one | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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