The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 72
He was dressed in a rich costume of pink silk and purple velvet, and my grandfather thought he would see what he could do.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: dress, think, see, do · To what, where: grandfather, rich costume · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (grandfather), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:1114): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 costume | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 costume | det |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 costume | amod |
| 7 | costume | costume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 silk | case |
| 9 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 silk | amod |
| 10 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 costume | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 velvet | cc |
| 12 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 velvet | amod |
| 13 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 silk | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 17 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 do | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 see | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | grandfather | a rich costume of pink silk and purple velvet | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | my grandfather | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | would | grandfather | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | could | grandfather | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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