The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 34
“‘Blue paint is just the color for eyes.’
Who acts: Blue paint · What happens: be · To what, where: color
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 (Blue paint), 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 color | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 paint | punct |
| 3 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 paint | amod |
| 4 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 color | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 color | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 color | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 color | det |
| 8 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 color | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 color | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 color | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Blue paint | the color | for eyes | 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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