The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 81
It was a great mistake my ever letting you into the Throne Room.
Who acts: humbug, my · What happens: be, let · To what, where: great mistake, you, Throne Room
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 (humbug, my), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mistake | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mistake | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mistake | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mistake | amod |
| 5 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 letting | nsubj |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 letting | advmod |
| 8 | letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 mistake | acl:relcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 letting | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 Room | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Room | det |
| 12 | Throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Room | compound |
| 13 | Room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 letting | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | humbug | a great mistake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | gerund | my | you | the Throne Room | ever | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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