The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 187

The green girl, who was very kind to them, filled Dorothy’s basket with good things to eat, and fastened a little bell around Toto’s neck with a green ribbon.

Who acts: green girl · What happens: be, fill, eat, fasten · To what, where: eyes, basket, little bell, neck

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 (green girl), 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	3 girl	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 filled	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kind	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 kind	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kind	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 kind	advmod
8	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kind	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 girl	punct
12	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 basket	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Dorothy	case
15	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 filled	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 things	case
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 filled	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 things	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fastened	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fastened	cc
23	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 filled	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bell	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bell	amod
26	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fastened	obj
27	around	around	ADP	_	30 neck	case
28	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 neck	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 Toto	case
30	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fastened	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 ribbon	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 ribbon	det
33	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 ribbon	amod
34	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fastened	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the green girl		eyes = eye		kind property	tree rules
2	fill	past	the green girl	Dorothy's basket			with good things	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent basket=Patient with thing=Instrument
3	eat	to-infinitive	the green girl not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fasten	past	the green girl not said here	a little bell		Toto's neck	with a green ribbon	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bell=Patient with ribbon=Co-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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