The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 63
It was easy to make the Scarecrow and the Lion and the Woodman happy, because they imagined I could do anything.
Who acts: people, I · What happens: be, make, imagine, do · To what, where: Scarecrow, anything
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, I), 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 | 3 easy | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 easy | cop |
| 3 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 easy | csubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Scarecrow | det |
| 7 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Lion | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 10 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Scarecrow | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 happy | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 happy | det |
| 13 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 happy | compound |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Lion | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 imagined | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 imagined | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 imagined | nsubj |
| 18 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 easy | conj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 imagined | ccomp |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the Scarecrow the Lion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scarecrow=Product | |||||
| 3 | imagine | past | people | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | could | I | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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