The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 4
“I cannot think why this wall is here, nor what it is made of.”
Who acts: I, wall · What happens: not think, be, make · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 here | advmod |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 here | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 here | cop |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 think | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 made | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux:pass |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 think | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 made | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | can | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | this wall | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present · passive | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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