The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 24

As for the Lion, he wiped his eyes so often with the tip of his tail that it became quite wet, and he was obliged to go out into the courtyard and hold it in the sun till it dried.

Who acts: Lion, tail · What happens: wipe, become, oblige, go out, hold, dry · To what, where: eyes, Lion, courtyard, tail, sun

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, tail), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 Lion	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lion	det
4	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wiped	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Lion	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wiped	nsubj
7	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wiped	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 often	advmod
11	often	often	ADV	_	7 wiped	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 tip	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tip	det
14	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wiped	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 tail	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tail	nmod:poss
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tip	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 became	nsubj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 became	nsubj
20	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tail	acl:relcl
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 wet	advmod
22	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 became	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 obliged	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 obliged	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 obliged	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 obliged	aux:pass
27	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wiped	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 obliged	xcomp
30	out	out	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 courtyard	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 courtyard	det
33	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hold	cc
35	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 obliged	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hold	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 sun	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sun	det
39	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hold	obl
40	till	till	SCONJ	_	42 dried	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 dried	nsubj
42	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 hold	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wiped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wipe	past	Lion	Lion's eyes		as the Lion; with the tip of Lion's tail; often property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source
2	become	past	Lion's tail			wet property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	oblige	past · passive		Lion			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	go out	to-infinitive			the courtyard	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hold	present		tail	the sun		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sun=Location
6	dry	past	tail				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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