The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 18
“The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick,” said the Witch, “so you cannot miss it.
Who acts: Witch, you · What happens: pave, say, not miss · To what, where: road · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Witch, you), 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 | _ | 10 paved | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 paved | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 City | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 City | det |
| 6 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 road | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Emeralds | case |
| 8 | Emeralds | Emeralds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 City | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 paved | aux:pass |
| 10 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 said | ccomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 brick | case |
| 12 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brick | amod |
| 13 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 paved | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 paved | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 paved | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Witch | det |
| 18 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 miss | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 miss | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 miss | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 miss | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 miss | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 miss | advmod |
| 25 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 miss | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pave in a quote | present · passive | the road to the City of Emeralds | with yellow brick | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with brick=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not miss in a quote | can | you | road | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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