The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 65
“He is considerably cracked in his head, and that makes him foolish.”
Who acts: that · What happens: crack, make · To what, where: Joker, 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 (that), 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 cracked | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cracked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cracked | aux:pass |
| 4 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 5 cracked | advmod |
| 5 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cracked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 makes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 makes | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 makes | nsubj |
| 12 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cracked | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 makes | obj |
| 14 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 makes | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cracked | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cracked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack in a quote | present · passive | Joker | Joker's head | considerably property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | that | Joker | foolish property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=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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