The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 82
Usually I will not see even my subjects, and so they believe I am something terrible.”
Who acts: I, subjects · What happens: not see, believe, be · To what, where: subjects, something
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, subjects), 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 | Usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 subjects | advmod |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 8 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 believe | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 believe | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | conj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 something | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 something | cop |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 believe | obj |
| 17 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 something | amod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | future | I | my subjects | usually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | believe | present | subjects = subject | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | something | tree rules |
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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