The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 5
You can roast it by the fire, since your tastes are so peculiar that you prefer cooked food, and then you will have a very good breakfast.”
Who acts: You, tastes, your · What happens: roast, be, prefer, cook, have, taste · To what, where: deer, peculiar, cooked food, good breakfast
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, tastes, your), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 roast | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 roast | aux |
| 3 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 roast | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roast | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 peculiar | punct |
| 9 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 peculiar | mark |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tastes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tastes | taste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 peculiar | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 peculiar | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 peculiar | advmod |
| 14 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roast | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 prefer | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 prefer | nsubj |
| 17 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 peculiar | advcl |
| 18 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 food | amod |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prefer | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 have | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 have | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 roast | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 breakfast | det |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 good | advmod |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 breakfast | amod |
| 29 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roast | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 roast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast | can | You | deer | by the fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | your tastes | peculiar | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prefer | present | you | cooked food | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | have | future | you | a good breakfast | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient | |||
| 6 | taste | your | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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