The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 6
“It is exactly in the center of the country, and is ruled by Oz, the Great Wizard I told you of.”
Who acts: name, Oz, city · What happens: be, rule, tell · To what, where: center, Great Wizard, you · 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 (name, Oz, city), 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 | _ | 7 center | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 center | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 center | cop |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 center | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 center | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 center | det |
| 7 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 center | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ruled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ruled | cc |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ruled | aux:pass |
| 14 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 center | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Oz | case |
| 16 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ruled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Wizard | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Wizard | det |
| 19 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Wizard | amod |
| 20 | Wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Oz | appos |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 told | nsubj |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Wizard | acl:relcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 told | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 center | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 center | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | name | the center | of the country; exactly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rule in a quote | present · passive | Oz | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | this city = city | the Great Wizard not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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