The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 55
They had made a chair of their hands and were careful not to hurt her.
Who acts: Monkeys · What happens: make, be, not hurt · To what, where: chair, harm
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkeys), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chair | det |
| 5 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chair | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 careful | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 careful | cop |
| 11 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | conj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 hurt | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hurt | mark |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 careful | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hurt | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | Monkeys = monkey | a chair of Monkeys's hands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chair=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Monkeys = monkey not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not hurt | to-infinitive | Monkeys = monkey not said here | harm | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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