The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 173

After picking out the silver shoe, which was all that was left of the old woman, she cleaned and dried it with a cloth, and put it on her foot again.

Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: pick out, leave, clean, dry, put · To what, where: silver shoe, bucket, foot

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 (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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 picking	mark
2	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 cleaned	advcl
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 picking	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shoe	det
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shoe	compound
6	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picking	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 left	obj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 left	aux:pass
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 left	det:predet
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 left	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 left	aux:pass
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 shoe	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 woman	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 left	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 picking	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cleaned	nsubj
20	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dried	cc
22	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cleaned	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dried	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 cloth	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cloth	det
26	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dried	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 put	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 put	cc
29	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 cleaned	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 put	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 foot	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 foot	nmod:poss
33	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
34	again	again	ADV	_	29 put	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 cleaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick out	gerund	Dorothy not said here	the silver shoe				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
2	leave	past · passive		the silver shoe			of the old woman	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute
3	clean	past	Dorothy					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	dry	past	Dorothy not said here	bucket			with a cloth	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with cloth=Instrument
5	put	infinitive	Dorothy not said here	bucket	Dorothy's foot	again		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on foot=Destination

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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