The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 84
“How was it that you appeared to me as a great Head?”
Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: Dorothy
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 (you), 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 | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 was | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appeared | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 was | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 appeared | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 appeared | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Head | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Head | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Head | amod |
| 13 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | you | Dorothy | as a great Head; appear property | 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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