The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 12
It is a long journey, through a country that is sometimes pleasant and sometimes dark and terrible.
Who acts: country · What happens: be · To what, where: long journey
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 journey | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 journey | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 journey | amod |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 country | punct |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journey | appos |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 pleasant | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pleasant | cop |
| 12 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 pleasant | advmod |
| 13 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 country | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dark | cc |
| 15 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 dark | advmod |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pleasant | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 terrible | cc |
| 18 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pleasant | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 journey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | country | a long journey | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a country | pleasant, sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a country not said here | sometimes property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | a country not said here | 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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