The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 30
“‘They are ears just the same,’” which was true enough.
Who acts: ears, same · What happens: be · To what, where: ears
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 (ears, same), 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 | _ | 8 same | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ears | punct |
| 3 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ears | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ears | cop |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 same | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 same | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 same | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 true | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 same | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 same | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 same | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 true | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 true | cop |
| 14 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 14 true | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | ears = ear | ears | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the same | enough, true 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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