The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 60
“And I thought Oz was a Ball of Fire,” exclaimed the Lion.
Who acts: I, Oz, Lion · What happens: think, be, exclaim · To what, where: Ball · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Oz, Lion), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ball | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Ball | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Ball | det |
| 8 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Fire | case |
| 10 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ball | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 13 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Lion | det |
| 15 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | Oz | a Ball | of Fire | tree rules | |||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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