The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 32
So he painted my right eye, and as soon as it was finished I found myself looking at him and at everything around me with a great deal of curiosity, for this was my first glimpse of the world.
Who acts: farmer, I, this · What happens: paint, finish, find, look, be, deal · To what, where: right eye, same, myself, curiosity
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 (farmer, I, this), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 painted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 painted | nsubj |
| 3 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eye | nmod:poss |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eye | amod |
| 6 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 painted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 finished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 finished | cc |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 finished | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 finished | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 finished | aux:pass |
| 14 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 painted | conj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 painted | advcl |
| 17 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 found | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looking | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 everything | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 everything | case |
| 23 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 him | conj |
| 24 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 everything | nmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 deal | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 deal | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 deal | amod |
| 29 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looking | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 curiosity | case |
| 31 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 deal | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 glimpse | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 glimpse | case |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 glimpse | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 glimpse | cop |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 glimpse | nmod:poss |
| 37 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 glimpse | amod |
| 38 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looking | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 world | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 world | det |
| 41 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 glimpse | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | farmer | my right eye | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Destination | ||||
| 2 | finish | past · passive | same | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | find | past | I | myself | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | I not said here | at farmer; with a great deal of curiosity | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | this | for my first glimpse; of the world | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | deal | curiosity | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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