The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 60
You’re quite as stiff And prim as if You’d eaten up a poker!”
Who acts: You · What happens: be, eat up · To what, where: You
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ’re | nsubj |
| 2 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 stiff | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 stiff | case |
| 5 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ’re | xcomp |
| 6 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 prim | cc |
| 7 | prim | prim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stiff | conj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 eaten | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 eaten | mark |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 eaten | nsubj |
| 11 | ’d | 'd | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 eaten | aux:pass |
| 12 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stiff | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 eaten | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 poker | det |
| 15 | poker | poker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eaten | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’re | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | You | stiff property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat up | present · passive | You | tree rules |
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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