The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 8

At one place a man was selling green lemonade, and when the children bought it Dorothy could see that they paid for it with green pennies.

Who acts: man, children · What happens: sell, buy, see, pay · To what, where: green lemonade, one place, lemonade

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 (man, children), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 place	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 place	nummod
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 selling	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 selling	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 selling	aux
7	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lemonade	amod
9	lemonade	lemonade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 selling	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 bought	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 children	det
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bought	nsubj
15	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 see	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bought	obj
17	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 bought	obj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 selling	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 paid	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 paid	nsubj
22	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 see	advcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 paid	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 pennies	case
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pennies	amod
27	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 paid	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 selling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sell	past · progressive	a man	green lemonade	one place		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent lemonade=Theme at place=Asset
2	buy	past	the children	lemonade			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary dorothy=Theme
3	see	could					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	pay	past	children = child			for lemonade; with green pennies	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme

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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