The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 16
Then he entered the back room and took up a measure of bran, which he mixed with a great many pins and needles.
Who acts: Wizard · What happens: enter, take up, mix, measure · To what, where: back room, measure, bran
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 room | compound |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 measure | det |
| 11 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bran | case |
| 13 | bran | bran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 measure | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mixed | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 mixed | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mixed | nsubj |
| 17 | mixed | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bran | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 pins | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pins | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pins | amod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pins | amod |
| 22 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mixed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 needles | cc |
| 24 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pins | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Wizard | the back room | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | |||
| 2 | take up | past | Wizard not said here | a measure of bran | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mix | past | Wizard | bran | with a great many pins and needles | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent which=Patient with pin=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | measure | bran | nom measure «act transitive»: of=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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