The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 18
“A balloon,” said Oz, “is made of silk, which is coated with glue to keep the gas in it.
Who acts: balloon · What happens: say, make, coat, keep · To what, where: gas, balloon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (balloon), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 balloon | det |
| 3 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 balloon | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 balloon | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 silk | case |
| 13 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 coated | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 coated | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 coated | aux:pass |
| 17 | coated | coat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 made | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 glue | case |
| 19 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coated | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 keep | mark |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 coated | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gas | det |
| 23 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a balloon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present · passive | of silk | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | |||||
| 3 | coat in a quote | present · passive | with glue | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with glue=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | the gas | balloon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gas=Theme in it=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.
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