The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 87
He pointed to one corner, in which lay the great Head, made out of many thicknesses of paper, and with a carefully painted face.
Who acts: Oz. · What happens: point, lie, make out, paint · To what, where: one corner, great Head, many thicknesses
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 (Oz.), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pointed | nsubj |
| 2 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 corner | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 corner | nummod |
| 5 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pointed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pointed | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Head | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Head | amod |
| 12 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lay | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 thicknesses | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 thicknesses | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thicknesses | amod |
| 18 | thicknesses | thickness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 paper | case |
| 20 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thicknesses | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 face | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 face | cc |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 face | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 face | det |
| 25 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 26 painted | advmod |
| 26 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 face | amod |
| 27 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | past | Oz. | one corner | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to corner=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | the great Head | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make out | past | many thicknesses of paper | with a painted face | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thickness=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | paint | participle | carefully property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: 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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