The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 56
“One would almost suspect you had brains in your head, instead of straw.”
Who acts: One, you · What happens: suspect, have · To what, where: brains, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (One, you), 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 | _ | 5 suspect | punct |
| 2 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 suspect | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 suspect | aux |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 suspect | advmod |
| 5 | suspect | suspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suspect | ccomp |
| 8 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 straw | punct |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 15 straw | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suspect | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suspect | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 suspect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect in a quote | would | One | instead straw; almost property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | you | brains | your head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
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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