The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 35

It took three days to sew all the strips together, but when it was finished they had a big bag of green silk more than twenty feet long.

Who acts: It, strips · What happens: take, sew, finish, have · To what, where: strips, silk, big bag

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 (It, strips), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sew	mark
6	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 strips	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 strips	det
9	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sew	obj
10	together	together	ADV	_	6 sew	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 finished	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 finished	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 finished	aux:pass
16	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 had	advcl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bag	det
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bag	amod
21	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 silk	case
23	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 silk	amod
24	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bag	nmod
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 long	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 feet	nummod
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 long	obl
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 had	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It		day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sew	to-infinitive		all strips		together property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Product
3	finish	past · passive		silk			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
4	have	past	strips = strip	a big bag of green silk			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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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