The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 109

“A man who goes up in a balloon on circus day, so as to draw a crowd of people together and get them to pay to see the circus,” he explained.

Who acts: man, people · What happens: go up, draw, get, pay, see, explain · To what, where: crowd, people, circus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, people), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 explained	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 explained	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 man	acl:relcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 goes	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 balloon	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 balloon	det
9	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	circus	circus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 draw	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 draw	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 draw	mark
16	to	to	PART	_	17 draw	mark
17	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 goes	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 crowd	det
19	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 draw	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 people	case
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 crowd	nmod
22	together	together	ADV	_	17 draw	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 get	cc
24	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 draw	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 pay	mark
27	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 get	xcomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 pay	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 circus	det
31	circus	circus	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 explained	nsubj
35	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go up in a quote	present	a man		day	in a balloon	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in balloon=Attribute
2	draw in a quote	to-infinitive		a crowd of people		together property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme
3	get in a quote	infinitive		people			tree rules
4	pay in a quote	to-infinitive	people not said here				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	see in a quote	to-infinitive	people not said here	the circus			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer circus=Stimulus
6	explain speech: assert	past					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: 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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