The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 50
It was smooth, like the surface of a dish, and higher than their heads.
Who acts: wall · What happens: be
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 (wall), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 smooth | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smooth | cop |
| 3 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 surface | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 surface | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 surface | det |
| 7 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smooth | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dish | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dish | det |
| 10 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surface | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 higher | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 higher | cc |
| 13 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 smooth | parataxis |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 heads | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heads | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 higher | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smooth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wall | like the surface of a dish; smooth 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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