The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 32
Dorothy picked them up and had the Winkies carry them back to the castle, where they were stuffed with nice, clean straw; and behold! here was the Scarecrow, as good as ever, thanking them over and over again for saving him.
Who acts: Dorothy, Winkies · What happens: pick up, have, carry back, stuff, be, thank · To what, where: clothes, castle, Scarecrow, Dorothy
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 (Dorothy, Winkies), 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 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 picked | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 had | cc |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Winkies | det |
| 8 | Winkies | winky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | nsubj |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | ccomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carry | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 carry | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stuffed | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 stuffed | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stuffed | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stuffed | aux:pass |
| 19 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 castle | acl:relcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 straw | case |
| 21 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 straw | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nice | punct |
| 23 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 straw | amod |
| 24 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stuffed | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 Scarecrow | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 behold | cc |
| 27 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 32 Scarecrow | discourse |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 behold | punct |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 Scarecrow | advmod |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 Scarecrow | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Scarecrow | det |
| 32 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picked | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 good | punct |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 good | advmod |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Scarecrow | amod |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 ever | case |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 good | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 thanking | punct |
| 39 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 picked | advcl |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 thanking | obj |
| 41 | over | over | ADV | _ | 39 thanking | advmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 again | cc |
| 43 | over | over | ADV | _ | 44 again | advmod |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 41 over | conj |
| 45 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 46 saving | mark |
| 46 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 thanking | advcl |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 saving | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | Dorothy | clothes | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Dorothy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | carry back | present | the Winkies | clothes | the castle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 4 | stuff | past · passive | clothes | with nice clean straw | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with straw=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the Scarecrow | here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | thank speech: thank | gerund | Dorothy not said here | clothes | over property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 7 | save | gerund | Dorothy not said here | Dorothy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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