The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 17

Having shaken them together thoroughly, he filled the top of the Scarecrow’s head with the mixture and stuffed the rest of the space with straw, to hold it in place.

Who acts: Wizard · What happens: have, shake, fill, stuff, hold · To what, where: needles, top, rest, place

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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 filled	advcl
2	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	xcomp
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shaken	obj
4	together	together	ADV	_	2 shaken	advmod
5	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	2 shaken	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 filled	nsubj
8	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 top	det
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 filled	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 head	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Scarecrow	det
13	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 head	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Scarecrow	case
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 top	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 mixture	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mixture	det
18	mixture	mixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 filled	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stuffed	cc
20	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 filled	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rest	det
22	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stuffed	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 space	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 space	det
25	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rest	nmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 straw	case
27	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 space	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hold	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 hold	mark
30	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 stuffed	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hold	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 place	case
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hold	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	Wizard not said here				tree rules
2	shake	participle	Wizard not said here	needles = needle		thoroughly, together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	fill	past	Wizard	the top of the Scarecrow's head		with the mixture	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent top=Patient with mixture=Instrument
4	stuff	past	Wizard not said here	the rest of the space with straw			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rest=Theme
5	hold	to-infinitive	Wizard not said here	rest	place		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in place=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/18/17/