The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 73

Of course that is all that is expected of us when we are on mantels and cabinets and drawing-room tables, but our lives are much pleasanter here in our own country.”

Who acts: we, lives · What happens: be · To what, where: that, mantels, own country

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 (we, lives), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 that	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 expected	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 expected	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 expected	det:predet
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 expected	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 expected	aux:pass
8	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 expected	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 expected	parataxis
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 mantels	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 mantels	cop
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 mantels	case
15	mantels	mantel	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 when	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cabinets	cc
17	cabinets	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mantels	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tables	cc
19	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 room	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 drawing	punct
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tables	compound
22	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mantels	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pleasanter	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 pleasanter	cc
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 lives	nmod:poss
26	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pleasanter	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 pleasanter	cop
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 pleasanter	advmod
29	pleasanter	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 mantels	conj
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 pleasanter	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 country	case
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 country	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 country	amod
34	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pleasanter	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 pleasanter	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 mantels	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present · passive		that		of that; of us; expect property	tree rules
2	is	present	we		mantels and cabinets and room tables		tree rules
3	is	present	our lives		our own country; here	pleasant property	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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