The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 13
“You see, when I came to this country it was in a balloon.
Who acts: You, little man, country · What happens: see, come, be · To what, where: country, balloon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, little man, country), 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 | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 balloon | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 balloon | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 balloon | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 balloon | det |
| 15 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 country | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | the little man = man | this country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | country | this country not said here | a balloon | 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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