The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 137

There were five long arms growing out of its body, and it also had five long, slim legs.

Who acts: five long arms, room · What happens: be, grow out, have · To what, where: body, five long slim legs

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (five long arms, room), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 arms	nummod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 arms	amod
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 arms	acl
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 body	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 body	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 body	nmod:poss
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 growing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
14	also	also	ADV	_	15 had	advmod
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
16	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 legs	nummod
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 legs	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 long	punct
19	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 legs	amod
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	five long arms		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow out	gerund	five long arms not said here	room's body		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme
3	have	past	room	five long slim legs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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