The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 55
He has broken himself so often that he is mended in a hundred places, and doesn’t look at all pretty.
Who acts: Joker · What happens: break, mend, not look · To what, where: Joker, hundred places
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 broken | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 broken | aux |
| 3 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 broken | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 often | advmod |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 broken | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 mended | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mended | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mended | aux:pass |
| 10 | mended | mend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 broken | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 places | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hundred | det |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 places | nummod |
| 14 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mended | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 look | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 look | cc |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 look | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 look | advmod |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 broken | parataxis |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 look | obl |
| 22 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 19 look | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · perfect | Joker | Joker | often property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | mend | present · passive | Joker | hundred places | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not look | present · do-support | at all; pretty property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=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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