The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 10
He was quite short and stout and had a big head, which was flat at the top and supported by a thick neck full of wrinkles.
Who acts: Scarecrow, big head · What happens: be, have, support · To what, where: big head, top
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, big head), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 short | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 short | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 short | advmod |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stout | cc |
| 6 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 short | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 short | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 head | amod |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flat | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 flat | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 flat | cop |
| 15 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 head | acl:relcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 top | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 top | det |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flat | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 supported | cc |
| 20 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 flat | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 neck | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 neck | det |
| 23 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 neck | amod |
| 24 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 supported | obl |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 neck | amod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wrinkles | case |
| 27 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 full | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 short | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Scarecrow | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Scarecrow not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | Scarecrow not said here | a big head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a big head | the top | flat property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | support | participle | a big head not said here | by a thick neck | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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