The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 30
Others polished the blade until all the rust was removed and it glistened like burnished silver.
Who acts: Others · What happens: polish, remove, glisten, burnish · To what, where: blade, rust
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 (Others), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 polished | nsubj |
| 2 | polished | polish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blade | det |
| 4 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 polished | obj |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 removed | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 rust | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rust | det |
| 8 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 removed | aux:pass |
| 10 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 polished | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 glistened | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 glistened | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 removed | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 silver | case |
| 15 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 silver | amod |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glistened | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 polished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | past | Others | the blade | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent blade=Destination | ||||
| 2 | remove | past · passive | all rust | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | glisten | participle · passive | rust | like burnished silver | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burnish | participle | tree rules |
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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