The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 63
When he was here he built for us this beautiful Emerald City, and now he is gone he has left the Wise Scarecrow to rule over us.”
Who acts: Wizard · What happens: be, build, leave, rule · To what, where: Wise Scarecrow
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 (Wizard), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 here | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 here | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 built | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 built | nsubj |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 City | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 City | nsubj |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 City | nsubj |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 City | amod |
| 11 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 City | compound |
| 12 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 built | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gone | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gone | cc |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 gone | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gone | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 gone | cop |
| 18 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 built | parataxis |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 left | aux |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 gone | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Scarecrow | det |
| 23 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Scarecrow | amod |
| 24 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 rule | mark |
| 26 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 Scarecrow | acl |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 us | case |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 rule | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Wizard | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | past | Wizard | for beautiful Emerald City | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for city=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Wizard | now | gone property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | leave | present · perfect | Wizard | the Wise Scarecrow | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rule | to-infinitive | Wizard not said here | the Wise Scarecrow not said here | over us | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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