The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 84
There are worse things in the world than being a Scarecrow.”
Who acts: worse things · What happens: be · To what, where: world
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 (worse things), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | obl |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 Scarecrow | case |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Scarecrow | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Scarecrow | det |
| 11 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | worse things | the world; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | than a Scarecrow | 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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