The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 10
Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere.
Who acts: grass, tops · What happens: not be, burn, be, see · To what, where: sun, same gray color
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass, tops), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 grass | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grass | det |
| 3 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 green | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 green | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 green | advmod |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 burned | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 burned | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 burned | aux |
| 12 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 green | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tops | det |
| 14 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 burned | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 blades | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blades | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 blades | amod |
| 18 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tops | nmod |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 color | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 color | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 color | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 color | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 color | amod |
| 24 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 color | amod |
| 25 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 burned | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 seen | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 seen | aux:pass |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 color | advcl |
| 29 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 28 seen | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 green | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the grass | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | past · perfect · passive | the sun | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | tops = top | the same gray color | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive · passive | tops = top not said here | everywhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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