The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 52
For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were.
Who acts: promises, spot, bald head · What happens: see, stand, hide, wrinkle, seem, be · To what, where: spot, screen
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 (promises, spot, bald head), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 saw | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 standing | punct |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 spot | case |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 spot | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spot | det |
| 9 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 screen | det |
| 11 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hidden | aux |
| 13 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 spot | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spot | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 head | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 head | det |
| 22 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 head | amod |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 face | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 face | det |
| 26 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 face | amod |
| 27 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 head | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 seemed | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 seemed | nsubj |
| 30 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 head | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 surprised | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 surprised | cop |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 much | advmod |
| 34 | much | much | ADV | _ | 35 surprised | advmod |
| 35 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 seemed | xcomp |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 were | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 were | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 surprised | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | promises = promise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | promises = promise not said here | the spot and a little old man | with a bald head and a wrinkled face | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in spot=Location | |||
| 3 | hide | past · perfect · passive | the spot and a little old man not said here | the screen | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | seem | past | a bald head and a wrinkled face | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | a bald head and a wrinkled face not said here | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | past | promises = promise | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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