The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 103
They made his hat and boots and clothes into a small bundle and threw it into the top branches of a tall tree.
Who acts: Monkeys · What happens: make, throw · To what, where: hat, small bundle, bundle, top branches
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkeys), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 boots | cc |
| 6 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hat | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 clothes | cc |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 boots | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 bundle | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bundle | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bundle | amod |
| 12 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threw | cc |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 threw | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 branches | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 branches | det |
| 18 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 branches | amod |
| 19 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 threw | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 22 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tree | amod |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 branches | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Monkeys = monkey | Toto's hat and boots and clothes | a small bundle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent hat=Material into bundle=Product | |||
| 2 | throw | past | Monkeys = monkey not said here | bundle | into the top branches of a tall tree result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into branch=Result |
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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