The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 15

When I remember that a short time ago I was up on a pole in a farmer’s cornfield, and that now I am the ruler of this beautiful City, I am quite satisfied with my lot.”

Who acts: I, short time, that · What happens: remember, be · To what, where: pole, ruler · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, short time, that), 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	3 remember	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 remember	nsubj
3	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 satisfied	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 pole	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pole	nsubj
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 time	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 pole	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pole	cop
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 was	compound:prt
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 pole	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pole	det
14	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remember	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 cornfield	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 farmer	det
17	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cornfield	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 farmer	case
19	cornfield	cornfield	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pole	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ruler	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ruler	cc
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 ruler	nsubj
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 ruler	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 ruler	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 ruler	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ruler	det
27	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remember	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 City	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 City	det
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 City	amod
31	City	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ruler	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 satisfied	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 satisfied	cop
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 satisfied	advmod
36	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 lot	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 lot	nmod:poss
39	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 satisfied	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 satisfied	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 satisfied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	I					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	a short time		a pole		in a farmer's cornfield	tree rules
3	is a	present	that	the ruler		now	of this beautiful City	tree rules
4	is	present	I				with my lot; satisfied property	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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