The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 8
It looked clumsy, but the Tin Woodman was sure it was strong and would answer their purpose.
Who acts: ladder, Tin Woodman, brains · What happens: look, be, answer, purpose · To what, where: purpose
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 (ladder, Tin Woodman, brains), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 sure | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Woodman | det |
| 7 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Woodman | compound |
| 8 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sure | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sure | cop |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 strong | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 strong | cop |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sure | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 answer | cc |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 answer | aux |
| 16 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 18 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answer | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | ladder | clumsy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Tin Woodman | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | ladder | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | would | the Tin Woodman not said here | brains's purpose | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | purpose | brains = brain | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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