The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 16
The only thing that worries me is how to cross the hill of the Hammer-Heads.”
Who acts: only thing · What happens: worry, be · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only thing), 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 | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cross | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 worries | nsubj |
| 5 | worries | worry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 worries | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cross | cop |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 cross | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cross | mark |
| 10 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cross | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Heads | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Heads | det |
| 15 | Hammer | Hammer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Heads | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hammer | punct |
| 17 | Heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hill | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cross | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cross | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | worry | present | the only thing | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the only thing | cross 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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