The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 33
So Dorothy took a needle and thread, and as fast as Oz cut the strips of silk into proper shape the girl sewed them neatly together.
Who acts: Dorothy, Oz, girl · What happens: take, cut, sew · To what, where: needle, strips, proper shape
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 (Dorothy, Oz, girl), 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 | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 needle | det |
| 5 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thread | cc |
| 7 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 needle | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cut | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cut | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 fast | advmod |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 cut | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 cut | mark |
| 13 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cut | nsubj |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 strips | det |
| 16 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cut | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 silk | case |
| 18 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strips | nmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 shape | case |
| 20 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 shape | amod |
| 21 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sewed | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 girl | det |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sewed | nsubj |
| 24 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cut | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sewed | obj |
| 26 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 27 together | advmod |
| 27 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 sewed | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Dorothy | a needle and thread | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | past | Oz | the strips of silk | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Product | |||
| 3 | sew | past | the girl | strips = strip | proper shape | together property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into shape=Product |
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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