The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 48
Then, being prepared for the journey, they all started for the Emerald City; and the Winkies gave them three cheers and many good wishes to carry with them.
Who acts: baskets, Winkies · What happens: prepare, start, give, carry · To what, where: three cheers, baskets
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 (baskets, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 prepared | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 prepared | aux:pass |
| 4 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prepared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 started | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 started | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 started | advmod |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prepared | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 City | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 City | det |
| 14 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 City | compound |
| 15 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Winkies | det |
| 19 | Winkies | Winky | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 started | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | iobj |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 cheers | nummod |
| 23 | cheers | cheer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gave | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wishes | cc |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wishes | amod |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wishes | amod |
| 27 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cheers | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 carry | mark |
| 29 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 gave | advcl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 carry | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | gerund · passive | then | for the journey | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for journey=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | start | past | baskets = basket | for the Emerald City; all property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the Winkies | three cheers and many good wishes | baskets = basket | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient cheer=Theme | |||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | the Winkies not said here | with baskets = basket | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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