The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 37
“I might have passed my whole life in the farmer’s cornfield.”
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: pass · To what, where: whole life, cornfield
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 (Scarecrow), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 life | amod |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cornfield | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 farmer | det |
| 11 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cornfield | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 farmer | case |
| 13 | cornfield | cornfield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | might · perfect | the Scarecrow = scarecrow | my whole life | the farmer's cornfield | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent life=Theme in cornfield=Destination |
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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