The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 34

First there was a strip of light green silk, then a strip of dark green and then a strip of emerald green; for Oz had a fancy to make the balloon in different shades of the color about them.

Who acts: strip, Oz · What happens: be, have, make, shade · To what, where: fancy, balloon, different shades, color

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 (strip, Oz), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 strip	det
5	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 silk	case
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 silk	compound
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 silk	amod
9	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strip	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 strip	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 strip	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 strip	det
13	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 silk	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 green	case
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 green	amod
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 strip	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 strip	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 strip	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 strip	det
20	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 green	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 green	case
22	emerald	emerald	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 green	compound
23	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 strip	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 Oz	case
26	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 fancy	det
29	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 make	mark
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 balloon	det
33	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 shades	case
35	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 shades	amod
36	shades	shade	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 make	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 color	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 color	det
39	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shades	nmod
40	about	about	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 color	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a strip of light green silk and a strip of dark green and a strip of emerald green		there	first property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Oz	a fancy			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	Oz not said here	the balloon	different shades of the color about strips		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset balloon=Product
4	shade			the color about strips			nom shade «state 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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