The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 59
“My lady fair, Why do you stare At poor old Mr. Joker?
Who acts: you · What happens: stare
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 (you), 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 | _ | 4 fair | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lady | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fair | nsubj |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stare | punct |
| 6 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 stare | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stare | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 stare | nsubj |
| 9 | stare | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fair | conj |
| 10 | At | at | ADP | _ | 14 Joker | case |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Joker | amod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Joker | amod |
| 13 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Joker | compound |
| 14 | Joker | joker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stare | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare in a quote | present · do-support | you | at poor old Mr. Joker | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at joker=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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