The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 51

He went to a cupboard and reaching up to a high shelf took down a square green bottle, the contents of which he poured into a green-gold dish, beautifully carved.

Who acts: Oz., reaching · What happens: go, reach up, take down, pour, carve · To what, where: cupboard, square green bottle, green gold dish

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 (Oz., reaching), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 cupboard	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cupboard	det
5	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
7	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 took	csubj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 reaching	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 shelf	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shelf	det
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shelf	amod
12	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reaching	obl
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 took	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bottle	det
16	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bottle	amod
17	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bottle	amod
18	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 contents	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 contents	det
21	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 bottle	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 poured	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 poured	nsubj
25	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 contents	acl:relcl
26	into	into	ADP	_	31 dish	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 dish	det
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dish	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 green	punct
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dish	compound
31	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 poured	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 carved	punct
33	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	34 carved	advmod
34	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 poured	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Oz.		a cupboard		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cupboard=Initial_Location
2	reach up	gerund				to a high shelf	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take down	past	reaching	a square green bottle and the contents			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme
4	pour	past	Oz.		a green gold dish	of the contents	vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent of which=Initial_Location into dish=Destination
5	carve	participle				beautifully property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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