The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 48
It was a lonely life to lead, for I had nothing to think of, having been made such a little while before.
Who acts: ground, I · What happens: be, lead, have, think, make · To what, where: lonely life, 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 (ground, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 life | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 life | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 life | det |
| 4 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 life | amod |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lead | mark |
| 7 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 life | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 had | case |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lead | ccomp |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 nothing | acl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 think | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 17 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 made | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 made | aux:pass |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 life | parataxis |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 while | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 while | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 while | amod |
| 23 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | before | before | ADV | _ | 19 made | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 life | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ground | a lonely life | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lead | to-infinitive | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | I | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | nothing not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | make | gerund · perfect · passive | while | before property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
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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