The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 93
He showed the Scarecrow the dress and the mask he had worn when he seemed to be the lovely Lady.
Who acts: ventriloquist · What happens: show, wear, seem, be · To what, where: dress, Scarecrow, mask, lovely Lady
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 (ventriloquist), 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 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Scarecrow | det |
| 4 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dress | det |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 worn | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mask | det |
| 9 | mask | mask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 worn | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 worn | aux |
| 12 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 showed | conj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 seemed | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 worn | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 Lady | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 Lady | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Lady | det |
| 19 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Lady | amod |
| 20 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seemed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | ventriloquist | the dress | the Scarecrow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Recipient dress=Topic | |||
| 2 | wear | past · perfect · passive | the mask | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | ventriloquist | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the lovely Lady | 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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