The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 56
I have heard that Glinda is a beautiful woman, who knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived.”
Who acts: I, Glinda, beautiful woman, castle · What happens: hear, be, know, keep, live, spite · To what, where: beautiful woman, spite, many years · 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, Glinda, beautiful woman, castle), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 woman | mark |
| 5 | Glinda | Glinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 woman | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 woman | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knows | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 knows | nsubj |
| 12 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 woman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 keep | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knows | ccomp |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 spite | case |
| 18 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 years | det |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 years | amod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spite | nmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lived | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 lived | aux |
| 25 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 years | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Glinda | a beautiful woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | present | a beautiful woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | spite of the many years | young property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in spite=Location | ||||
| 5 | live | present · perfect | castle | the many years not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme year=Location | ||||
| 6 | spite | the many years | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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