The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 17
Before them was a great stretch of country having a floor as smooth and shining and white as the bottom of a big platter.
Who acts: brains, great stretch · What happens: be, have, shine · To what, where: great stretch, floor
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brains, great stretch), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 stretch | mark |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stretch | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stretch | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stretch | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stretch | amod |
| 6 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretch | nmod |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stretch | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 floor | det |
| 11 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 having | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 smooth | case |
| 13 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 having | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shining | cc |
| 15 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 having | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 white | cc |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shining | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 bottom | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bottom | det |
| 20 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shining | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 platter | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 platter | det |
| 23 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 platter | amod |
| 24 | platter | platter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bottom | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stretch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | brains = brain | a great stretch | of country | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | a great stretch not said here | a floor | as smooth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Patient | |||
| 3 | shine | gerund | a great stretch not said here | as the bottom of a big platter | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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