The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 39
I had the fun of watching them make my body and my arms and legs; and when they fastened on my head, at last, I felt very proud, for I thought I was just as good a man as anyone.
Who acts: I, fun, nose · What happens: have, watch, make, fasten, feel, think · To what, where: nose, body · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, fun, nose), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fun | det |
| 4 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 watching | mark |
| 6 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 fun | acl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 watching | obj |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | parataxis |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 body | nmod:poss |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 make | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 and | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 legs | cc |
| 15 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 arms | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 felt | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 felt | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 fastened | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fastened | nsubj |
| 20 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 felt | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fastened | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 last | punct |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 last | case |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fastened | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fastened | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 felt | nsubj |
| 29 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 proud | advmod |
| 31 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 felt | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 thought | punct |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 thought | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 thought | nsubj |
| 35 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 felt | conj |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 good | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 good | cop |
| 38 | just | just | ADV | _ | 40 good | advmod |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 good | advmod |
| 40 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 thought | ccomp |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 man | det |
| 42 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 good | nsubj |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 anyone | case |
| 44 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 42 man | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | the fun not said here | nose | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | the fun | my body | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product | ||||
| 4 | fasten | past | nose | on my head | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on head=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | I | proud property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | past | I | good 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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