The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 101
Then the green man fitted spectacles for the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion, and even on little Toto; and all were locked fast with the key.
Who acts: green man · What happens: fit, lock · To what, where: spectacles, all
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (green man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 fitted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fitted | nsubj |
| 5 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fitted | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Scarecrow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Scarecrow | det |
| 9 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fitted | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Woodman | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Woodman | det |
| 12 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Woodman | compound |
| 13 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Scarecrow | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Lion | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Lion | det |
| 16 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Woodman | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Toto | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Toto | cc |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 Toto | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Toto | case |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Toto | amod |
| 22 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Woodman | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 locked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 locked | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 locked | aux:pass |
| 27 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fitted | parataxis |
| 28 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 locked | advmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 key | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 key | det |
| 31 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 locked | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | past | the green man | spectacles | then | for the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion and little Toto | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Patient | ||
| 2 | lock | past · passive | all | with the key; fast property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with key=Instrument |
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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