The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 16
Now, it is quite beyond my powers to make a cyclone; but I’ve been thinking the matter over, and I believe I can make a balloon.”
Who acts: way, I · What happens: be, think over, believe, make · To what, where: matter, 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 (way, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 make | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 make | advmod |
| 6 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 8 powers | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 powers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 quite | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cyclone | det |
| 12 | cyclone | cyclone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinking | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 thinking | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 thinking | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 thinking | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 thinking | aux |
| 18 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 make | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 matter | det |
| 20 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thinking | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 thinking | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 believe | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 believe | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 believe | nsubj |
| 25 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | parataxis |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 make | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 believe | ccomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 balloon | det |
| 30 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | way | now | make property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think over speech: other | present · perfect · progressive | I | the matter | over property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot matter=Theme | |||
| 3 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make | can | I | a balloon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balloon=Product |
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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