The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 2
This officer unlocked their spectacles to put them back in his great box, and then he politely opened the gate for our friends.
Who acts: officer · What happens: unlock, put back, open · To what, where: spectacles, whiskers, great box, gate
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 (officer), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 officer | det |
| 2 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 unlocked | nsubj |
| 3 | unlocked | unlock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 5 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 unlocked | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 unlocked | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 box | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 box | nmod:poss |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 box | amod |
| 13 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 opened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 opened | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 opened | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 opened | nsubj |
| 18 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 19 opened | advmod |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unlocked | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gate | det |
| 21 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 opened | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 friends | case |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friends | nmod:poss |
| 24 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 opened | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unlocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unlock | past | this officer | whiskers's spectacles | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put back | to-infinitive | this officer not said here | whiskers = whisker | officer's great box | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in box=Destination | |||
| 3 | open | past | officer | the gate | then | for our friends; politely property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=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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