The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 88

“This I hung from the ceiling by a wire,” said Oz. “I stood behind the screen and pulled a thread, to make the eyes move and the mouth open.”

Who acts: This, Oz., eyes · What happens: hang, say, stand, pull, make, move · To what, where: ceiling, screen, thread · 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 (This, Oz., eyes), 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	_	4 hung	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 hung	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hung	nsubj
4	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 ceiling	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ceiling	det
7	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 wire	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wire	det
10	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Oz.	Oz.	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 stood	nsubj
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 screen	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 screen	det
20	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pulled	cc
22	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stood	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 thread	det
24	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pulled	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 make	mark
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 pulled	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 eyes	det
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 move	nsubj
30	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 make	ccomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 mouth	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mouth	det
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 move	conj
34	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 move	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang in a quote	past	This		the ceiling	by a wire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wire=Location
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stand in a quote	past	Oz.		the screen		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind screen=Location
4	pull in a quote	past	Oz. not said here	a thread			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
5	make in a quote	to-infinitive	Oz. not said here				tree rules
6	move in a quote	present	the eyes			open property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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