The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 30
The country of the Quadlings seemed rich and happy.
Who acts: country · What happens: seem
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 (country), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Quadlings | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Quadlings | det |
| 5 | Quadlings | quadling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 country | nmod |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 happy | cc |
| 9 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rich | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the country of the Quadlings | rich property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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