The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 53
“Here is a great tree, standing close to the ditch.
Who acts: great tree · What happens: be, stand
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 (great tree), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 standing | punct |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Here | conj |
| 9 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 standing | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ditch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ditch | det |
| 12 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 close | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | a great tree | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand in a quote | gerund | a great tree not said here | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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