The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 15
“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful.
Who acts: matter, we, people · What happens: be, gray, people, live · To what, where: homes
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, we, people), 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 dreary | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 matter | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dreary | nsubj |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 dreary | advmod |
| 5 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 live | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gray | cc |
| 7 | gray | gray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dreary | conj |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 homes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gray | obj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dreary | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 people | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 people | nsubj |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 live | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 flesh | case |
| 15 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 people | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blood | cc |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flesh | conj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 live | aux |
| 19 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 20 live | advmod |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 live | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 country | case |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 country | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 country | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 country | amod |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 live | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 be | punct |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 beautiful | cop |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 be | obj |
| 30 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 beautiful | advmod |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 beautiful | advmod |
| 32 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 live | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | no matter | dreary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gray in a quote | present | no matter not said here | our homes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent home=Patient | ||||
| 3 | people in a quote | we | of flesh and blood | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | would | people | there | than any other country | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | infinitive | ever | beautiful 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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