The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 23
“My life has been so short that I really know nothing whatever.
Who acts: life, child · What happens: be, know · To what, where: nothing
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 (life, child), 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 short | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 life | nmod:poss |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 short | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 short | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 short | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 short | advmod |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 short | advcl |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 know | obj |
| 13 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 nothing | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 short | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | My life | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | the child = child | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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