The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 54
“Now there is Mr. Joker, one of our clowns,” continued the china lady, “who is always trying to stand upon his head.
Who acts: Joker · What happens: be, continue, try, stand · To what, where: Joker, china lady, head
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 (Joker), 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 | _ | 6 Joker | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 is | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Joker | cop |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Joker | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Joker | Joker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 continued | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Joker | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 clowns | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 clowns | nmod:poss |
| 11 | clowns | clown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clowns | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 clowns | punct |
| 14 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lady | det |
| 16 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lady | compound |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 continued | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 trying | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 trying | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 trying | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 trying | aux |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 trying | advmod |
| 23 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 continued | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 stand | mark |
| 25 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 trying | xcomp |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 head | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stand | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Joker | Mr. nmod:desc | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | Joker | the china lady | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try in a quote | present · progressive | always property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | stand not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Joker's head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon head=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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