The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 91
“I can throw the sound of my voice wherever I wish, so that you thought it was coming out of the Head.
Who acts: I, you, sound · What happens: throw, wish, think, come out · To what, where: sound, Head · 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, you, sound), 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 throw | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 throw | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 throw | aux |
| 4 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throw | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 voice | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 voice | nmod:poss |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sound | nmod |
| 10 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 wish | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 voice | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 thought | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 throw | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 coming | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 coming | aux |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 Head | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Head | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Head | det |
| 24 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coming | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw in a quote | can | I | the sound of my voice | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | I | wherever property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come out in a quote | past · progressive | sound | the Head | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient head=Result |
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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