The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 15
So the Wizard unfastened his head and emptied out the straw.
Who acts: Wizard · What happens: unfasten, empty out · To what, where: head, straw
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wizard), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 unfastened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wizard | det |
| 3 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 unfastened | nsubj |
| 4 | unfastened | unfasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unfastened | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 emptied | cc |
| 8 | emptied | empty | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 unfastened | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 emptied | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 straw | det |
| 11 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 emptied | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unfastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfasten | past | the Wizard | Wizard's head | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | empty out | participle | the Wizard not said here | the straw | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
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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