The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 98
The Guardian of the Gates found a pair that would just fit Dorothy and put them over her eyes.
Who acts: Guardian, pair · What happens: find, fit, put · To what, where: pair, Dorothy, glasses, eyes
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 (Guardian, pair), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Guardian | det |
| 2 | Guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Gates | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Gates | det |
| 5 | Gates | Gate | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Guardian | nmod |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pair | det |
| 8 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 fit | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fit | aux |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 fit | advmod |
| 12 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pair | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fit | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fit | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 put | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Guardian of the Gates | a pair | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fit | would | a pair | Dorothy | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | a pair not said here | glasses = glass | Guardian's eyes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over eye=Destination |
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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