The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 21
But the strangest of all were the people who lived in this queer country.
Who acts: strangest, people · What happens: be, live · To what, where: people, queer country
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 (strangest, people), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 strangest | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 strangest | det |
| 3 | strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 people | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 strangest | obl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 people | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 country | det |
| 13 | queer | queer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 country | compound |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the strangest | the people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the people | this queer country | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
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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