The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 19
All they could see was a mass of towers and steeples behind the green walls, and high up above everything the spires and dome of the Palace of Oz.
Who acts: beasts, All · What happens: see, be · To what, where: mass, everything
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beasts, All), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 mass | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mass | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mass | det |
| 7 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 towers | case |
| 9 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mass | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 steeples | cc |
| 11 | steeples | steeple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 towers | conj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 walls | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 walls | det |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 walls | amod |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 towers | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 high | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 high | cc |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mass | amod |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 high | advmod |
| 20 | above | above | ADP | _ | 21 everything | case |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 mass | nmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spires | det |
| 23 | spires | spire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 everything | appos |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dome | cc |
| 25 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spires | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Palace | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Palace | det |
| 28 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 dome | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Oz. | case |
| 30 | Oz. | Oz. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Palace | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | beasts = beast | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | All | a mass | everything | of towers behind the green walls and steeples | 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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