The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 186
The Scarecrow stuffed himself with fresh straw and Dorothy put new paint on his eyes that he might see better.
Who acts: Scarecrow, Dorothy · What happens: stuff, put, see · To what, where: Scarecrow, new paint, eyes
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 (Scarecrow, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Scarecrow | det |
| 2 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuffed | nsubj |
| 3 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 stuffed | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 straw | case |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 straw | amod |
| 7 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuffed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 9 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stuffed | conj |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 paint | amod |
| 12 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 put | advcl |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 see | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stuffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stuff | past | the Scarecrow | Scarecrow | with fresh straw | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with straw=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | past | Dorothy | new paint | Scarecrow's eyes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent paint=Theme on eye=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | might | Scarecrow | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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