The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 33
In a wardrobe were many green dresses, made of silk and satin and velvet; and all of them fitted Dorothy exactly.
Who acts: all · What happens: be, make, fit · To what, where: many green dresses, wardrobe, Dorothy
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 (all), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 wardrobe | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wardrobe | det |
| 3 | wardrobe | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dresses | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dresses | cop |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dresses | amod |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dresses | amod |
| 7 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dresses | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 silk | case |
| 11 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 satin | cc |
| 13 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 silk | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 velvet | cc |
| 15 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 silk | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 fitted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fitted | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 fitted | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 all | nmod |
| 21 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dresses | parataxis |
| 22 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 fitted | obj |
| 23 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 21 fitted | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dresses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | many green dresses | a wardrobe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | many green dresses not said here | of silk and satin and velvet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | fit | past | all | Dorothy | exactly property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=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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