The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 96
He opened the big box, and Dorothy saw that it was filled with spectacles of every size and shape.
Who acts: few, Dorothy · What happens: open, see, fill · To what, where: big box, box · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (few, Dorothy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 8 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 filled | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 filled | aux:pass |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 spectacles | case |
| 15 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 filled | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 size | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 size | det |
| 18 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spectacles | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shape | cc |
| 20 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 size | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | few | the big box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Dorothy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | box | with spectacles of every size and shape | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with spectacle=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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