The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 20
But in all this country there is no gas to fill the balloon with, to make it float.”
Who acts: gas · What happens: be, fill, make, float · To what, where: country, balloon, gas
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 (gas), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 is | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 country | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 country | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | obl |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 gas | det |
| 9 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fill | mark |
| 11 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gas | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 balloon | det |
| 13 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fill | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fill | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fill | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no gas | all country; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 2 | fill | to-infinitive | no gas not said here | the balloon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent balloon=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | no gas not said here | gas | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | float | infinitive | gas not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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