The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 96
It was really a ball of cotton, but when oil was poured upon it the ball burned fiercely.
Who acts: Ball · What happens: be, pour, burn · To what, where: ball, oil
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 (Ball), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ball | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ball | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 ball | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ball | det |
| 5 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cotton | case |
| 7 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ball | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 poured | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 poured | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 poured | advmod |
| 11 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 poured | aux:pass |
| 13 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ball | parataxis |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 poured | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ball | det |
| 17 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 burned | nsubj |
| 18 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 poured | parataxis |
| 19 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 18 burned | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ball | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ball | a ball | of cotton | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pour | past · passive | oil | upon Ball | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | burn | past | the ball | fiercely property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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